Olivier Dahan Quotes
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
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My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
