Francine Prose Quotes
We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.
