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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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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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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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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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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It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
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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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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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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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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
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There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.
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To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.
