Leila Slimani Quotes
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!
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One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.
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At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
