Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
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A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
