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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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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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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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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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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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
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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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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.
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Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.
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I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
