Melanie Laurent Quotes
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.
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Deep in the secret chambers of my heartI muse my life-long hate, and without flinchI bear it nobly as I live my part.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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In the midst of life we are in debt.
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It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.
