Amelie Nothomb Quotes
I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
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Poetry is for the inner ear
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As the man, so his God
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks.
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I've enjoyed my retirement.
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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
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I had a job once selling encyclopedias, and that was an interesting job because I learned a lot about people's vulnerabilities and how salesmen take advantage of them.
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I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
