Emmanuelle Riva Quotes
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
