Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
Directors have to push me because I never start [high] and then need to be pushed down; I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?
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I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
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Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.
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You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
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There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
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Men are born, and then they're formed.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.
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I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.
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Because I'm a "strong person," the symptoms hit me by surprise. It was, as I write in the book, stinging in my eyes after Sunday that I thought was an allergy, until one day I sat in the car and decided to just let my eyes tear up so that whatever was in them would come out, and what came out were tears that wouldn't stop. It was literally a physical reaction that was my first indication there was anything wrong.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
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Directors have to push me because I never start [high] and then need to be pushed down; I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
