Patrick Modiano Quotes
Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
