Vanessa Paradis Quotes
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.
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When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
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It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
