Jean Patou Quotes
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
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I don't have a political bone in my body.
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I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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It needs to improve. What we are asking them to do needs to be assessed to see if they can actually do it. Can our receivers do what we have been doing the last few years? We need to adjust and make some modifications.
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The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.
