Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
I think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
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The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I just live my life. I guess I just don't think much about whether people are going to watch. Most of my friends don't know much about what I do, and we don't talk about it. I have a different life away from work. Which is fine, because my work can get pretty intense.
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
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My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
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I think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.
