Leslie Caron Quotes
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
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That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
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We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.
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I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
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It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
