Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Quotes
I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
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You can have a big hit and not get rich.
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Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
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In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.
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Just stay real and stay a real person.
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Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.
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My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.
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I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.
