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 United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.
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When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.
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Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
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I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.
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I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
