Brigitte Bardot Quotes
I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.
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I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
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The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
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I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.
