Andreï Makine Quotes
In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn't combed your hair, older black ladies - complete strangers - would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie.
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So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
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I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.
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Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
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Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.
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You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...
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In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
