Simone Signoret Quotes
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.
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By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
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Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.
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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
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We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
