Anna Gavalda Quotes
How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?
Quotes to Explore
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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The men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.
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Honestly, before I started working at the comic shop, I was not a huge comic reader. I grew up reading 'Archie' and have an incredible love/hate relationship with Archie Comics. I got back into it when I started living with some roommates who were really comics fanatics.
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I eat an enormous amount of fruits and vegetables.
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.
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Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
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Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.
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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.
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Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.
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I was waiting for L.A. to always become something important. I gave up... I left in 1974.
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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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The strong must protect the sweet.
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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?
