eL Seed Quotes
When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:
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We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...
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I meet a lot of people.
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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Plus fait douceur que violence.
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As a painting teacher I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it.. .If you don't want to be serious about playing at art, do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.
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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
