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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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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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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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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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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Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.
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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'
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Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something to happen to them, even when I'm not responsible for them - that God will punish me.
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Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
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I am a workaholic. I like to work, work, work.
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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.
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It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.
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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
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Learn to take pleasure in the search.
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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
