Astrid Berges-Frisbey Quotes
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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This spirit of cooperation will, I hope, lead to many more measures that will benefit all in the region.
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We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.
