Leila Slimani Quotes
When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I have a great office.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
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Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
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Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
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People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.
