Francois Hollande Quotes

A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.

Francois Hollande

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• When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Short
  • Early

• My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Story

• I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Like
  • Cheat

• My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

  

  Maluma
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Myself

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Gay

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Think
  • Past
  • Seeing

• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Different
  • Past
  • Present

• I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Different
  • Character
  • Worry

• XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Children
  • Death
  • Band

• I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • God
  • Beginning

• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Crazy
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Western civilization is passing through a social revolution unparalleled in history for scope and power. Its coming was inevitable. ...By universal consent this social crisis is the overshadowing problem of our generation.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Power
  • History
  • Revolution

• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • Work
  • Important

• I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Drama

• I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Man
  • Create
  • Heterosexual

• One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Heart
  • Confidence
  • Leads

• A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.

  

  Francois Hollande