Clemence Poesy Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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I try to bring myself to every role. The last thing you want to seem like to other people is a talking head or an actor reading lines.
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
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It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
