Marcel Pagnol Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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I've always wanted to go to Australia. I hear it's a great place. I mean, kangaroos are pretty awesome. That's an up factor.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
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If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
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I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
