Leila Slimani Quotes
Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.
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People always want to doubt you.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.
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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
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You are beautiful and you are alone.
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Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.
