Francois Mitterrand Quotes
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
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What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
