Isabelle Adjani (Isabelle Yasmina Adjani) Quotes
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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Optimism is cowardice.
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You know what I just realized? Jack Black...Jack White! points to Jack White
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There are only two things a child will share willingly-communicable diseases and his mother's age.
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Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
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I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
