Francoise Gilot Quotes
What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
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But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
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I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.
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I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.
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Your average teenager can't relate to a girl who casts magic spells. But she does understand someone who is torn about her upbringing and the situation in her life.
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What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.
