Lou Doillon Quotes
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
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I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
