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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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
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Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.
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To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
