Anna Gavalda Quotes
But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
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To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.
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My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.
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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
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Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.
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But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.
