Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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Winning excuses everything.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
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Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
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I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
