Vanessa Paradis Quotes
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
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As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
