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Quotes by French Authors
"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."
"Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us."
"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing."
"In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture."
"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."
"I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up."
"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."
"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."
"As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part."
"To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored."
"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines."
"There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation."
"Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge."
"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
"I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role."
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
"I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong."
"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."
"When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives."
"Every country has the government it deserves."
"A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought."
"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."
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