Anna Gavalda Quotes

How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

Anna Gavalda

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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.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Character
  • Want
  • Compliment

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • You
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Today
  • Environment
  • Search

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Nature
  • Respect
  • Aspect

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Success

• The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. '...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • God
  • School
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• I eat an enormous amount of fruits and vegetables.

  

  Andie MacDowell

• 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.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • God
  • She
  • Remember

• Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Great
  • Red

• Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Character
  • Respect

• Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • Men
  • Strong

• If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

  

  Frederick Banting
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Waiting

• Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

  

  Jules Verne
  • Sleep
  • Waiting
  • Best Friend

• The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • World
  • History
  • Knowledge

• How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

  

  Anna Gavalda
  • Waiting
  • Breath
  • Sidetracked