Alain Resnais Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
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I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
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I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
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I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
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After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
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It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
