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.
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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.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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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.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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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.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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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.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
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Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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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.
