Isabelle Adjani (Isabelle Yasmina Adjani) Quotes
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
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You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.
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The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
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From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me.
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I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
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You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know...
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What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.
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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
