Delphine de Vigan Quotes
My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
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People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
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The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
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My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.
