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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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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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 love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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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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I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
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For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
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There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.
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I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.
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I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
