Leila Slimani Quotes
My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.
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I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
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I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.
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My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.
