Alber Elbaz Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
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I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.
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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
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Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
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I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
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I'd always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was very little. I don't know why.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
