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Quotes by French Authors
"The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second."
"But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do."
"Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing."
"But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world."
"A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time."
"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"
"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
"The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film."
"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
"I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada."
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
"One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future."
"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."
"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words."
"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."
"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."
"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
"I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins."
"I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness."
"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
"The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time."
"I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot."
"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."
"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak."
"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."
"The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers."
"And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents."
"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
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