Janine di Giovanni Quotes
No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
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No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
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I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.
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I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.
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The thing that disturbs me the most, being in England, is that on the screen we don't see very many of us - there aren't very many black girls. They don't make the roles for us, or they don't see us in those roles.
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No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.
