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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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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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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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
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I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.
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I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.
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To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.
