Coco Chanel Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
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In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.
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Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.
