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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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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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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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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All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
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Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
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I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.
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What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
