Leila Slimani Quotes
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.
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Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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My vision was that they should be more ‘English’, so I kept repeating the message in different ways.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Authors have a nationality; books do not.
