Pierre Cardin Quotes
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.
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I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
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I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.
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A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.
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France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
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I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
