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"In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

"Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none."
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"The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French."

"I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation."

"Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that."

"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

"The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me."

"The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right."
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