Anne Parillaud Quotes
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. 'I'm worth it, I'm credible - believe me, give me a shot!' That's the way I feel on a consistent basis.
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If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
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The suburbs have always been like an American version of utopia and a reflection of their hopes and fears. Erika's version of American suburban utopia - which I am renaming the outer ring - is a diverse place, with affordable housing, the possibility for people to have small businesses, which is more realistic in the outer ring than in the city with its huge costs, decent public transportation and the ability to access art and cultural events. That's my dream for America.
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That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
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The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.
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Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
