Anna Gavalda Quotes
Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
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God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.
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Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.
