Leila Slimani Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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Dedicate a lot of your time creating Vines and try to post daily.
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At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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A mother should never be blamed for working.
