Lou Doillon Quotes
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.
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I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
