Emile Faguet Quotes
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I'd like to do more acting.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.
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I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
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I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
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We are such stuff that dreams are made of.
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I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it.
