Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise there could be a resurgence of Ebola. So everybody must remain vigilant.
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
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To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
