Jeanne Moreau Quotes
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
