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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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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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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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.
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There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
