Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
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Love is like a flower, even the most beautiful kind dies.
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Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
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Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
