Alber Elbaz Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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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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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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I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
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I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.
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And all may do what has by man been done.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.