Christine and the Queens (Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier) Quotes
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.
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I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.
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Gendered performance is just constant theater.
