Anne Parillaud Quotes

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Anne Parillaud

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
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• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Like
  • Always
  • Someone

• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Air
  • Pessimist
  • Who

• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Success
  • Wish
  • Humility

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Religious
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • People
  • Think
  • Smart

• I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Never

• I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • She
  • Beautiful

• It is the greatest injustice done to Mondrian that people who are plastically blind see only decorative design instead of the plastic perfection which characterizes his work. The whole De Stijl group from which Mondrian's art was derived must be considered a protest against such blindness.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Silly
  • Acceptance

• There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People

• Waiting is one of the great arts.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Arts

• Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I'm working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.

  

  Chris Farley
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • House
  • Problem

• I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Control
  • Fake

• On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

  

  Anne Parillaud