Mathieu Amalric Quotes
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I am not driven.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
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Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
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I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.
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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.
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I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.
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This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
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Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
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It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.
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Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.
