Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
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Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
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You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
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Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.