Leila Slimani Quotes

When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Revenge
  • Suicide

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
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• Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Girl
  • Competition
  • Australia

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
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• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Death
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• When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

  

  Malcolm X
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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
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• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

  

  Gary Allan
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• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Believe
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• Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Together
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  • Dream

• Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Money
  • Short

• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Always
  • Chess
  • Take

• I know how I treat my friends and family and kids, and that's all I'm worried about.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • Family
  • Kids
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• I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • People
  • World
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• People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

  

  Rebecca Ferguson
  • People
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• My favorite memories were with my dad, throwing a football around when he came home from work. As long as kids are having fun, that's the biggest deal at the end of the day.

  

  Andrew Luck
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• When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.

  

  Leila Slimani
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