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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I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
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No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
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Basically you’ve got to be yourself, and just three or four percent larger than life, that is it. That is my belief. That is if you have it, if you are successful. If you go a little over the top, then you are arrogant and pompous.
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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.
