Mireille Guiliano Quotes
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I always have to be writing.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don't get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don't get to see seen. I would like to normalize that.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
