Vanessa Paradis Quotes
I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I hate to plan my life.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
