Jacques Delille Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.
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I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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It's hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they're at the same walk of life that I'm in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.
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I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
