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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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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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.
