Vanessa Paradis Quotes
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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I'm pretty outspoken.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
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Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
