Andreï Makine Quotes

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

Andreï Makine

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Money
  • Power
  • Influence

• The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Eye
  • Model
  • Cooking

• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  

  Om Puri
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Funny

• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Money
  • September
  • Him

• I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person... there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • People
  • Different
  • Strong

• A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.

  

  Warren G
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• I will cherish this as a reminder of the extraordinary, incredible outpouring of people who demanded their voice be heard in this last election so we can look forward to amazing change in this country.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Country
  • Amazing

• I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women's vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women's health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Women
  • Real
  • Family

• I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake and have to remove it all! I'd rather play up my eyes with winged eyeliner.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Mistake

• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Future

• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  

  Confucius
  • Mistake
  • Friendship
  • Promises

• In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

  

  Andreï Makine
  • Mistake
  • Looking
  • Paradise