Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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People entertain me more than I entertain them.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
