Anne Parillaud Quotes
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
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We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.
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I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
