Patrick Modiano Quotes
All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.
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I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
