Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
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You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
