Patrick Modiano Quotes
Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.Patrick Modiano
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney -
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
Sam Heughan -
Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
Kacey Musgraves -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra -
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi -
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
Edan Lepucki -
In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Adam Derek Scott -
That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
Zach Braff -
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams -
There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Ira Glasser -
American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
Carice van Houten
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Ingmar Bergman -
If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
Chevy Stevens -
I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Topshop is the best. I don't know how I'd live without it. Most of my clothes are from there.
Poppy Delevingne -
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Thomas Carlyle -
Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.
Patrick Modiano