Melanie Laurent Quotes
For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
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As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
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For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.
