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 think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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From the age of 14, I wanted to be a director.
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People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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I don't want to be alone, I want to be left 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.
