Francoise Sagan Quotes
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
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The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
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There is a garden in her faceWhere roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place,Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:There cherries grow which none may buyTill 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
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What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.
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While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
