Melanie Laurent Quotes
I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
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All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
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We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
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I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'
