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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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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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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There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes and theatrics, but in terms of worship and devotion to the One we will worship for all eternity - the Lamb who sits on the throne of heaven.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
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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.
