Jeanne Moreau Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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'Everyone exploits somebody.'
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I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
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When we're making music together, it's like five men making love-in a very platonic sense. It's very erotic, because your spirits are intermingling, you're becoming one. It's also why it can get so heated. You're tapping into this electricity that's very primal.
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It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.
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I came to see that it wasn't enough just to care about people. You also had to build systems in which you could ensure that there are results and accountability.
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I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.
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I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
