Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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Bling is good.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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If you want something bad enough, take the steps needed to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes you get lucky and can skip some steps, but most of the time you can't. The secret to achieving any goal is nothing more than putting in the necessary time and effort.
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I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.
