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Julia Restoin Roitfeld Quotes

Girls are having babies when they are younger and combining kids with work. I don't know if it's always been there or if I'm just more aware because I'm in this situation.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: model
Nationality: french
Birth: November 12, 1980

Topics

Work Situation Know More Always

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Jimmy Buffett

Me Performance Song Reading Story

A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.

Jerry Jeff Walker

New York Go New Know Places More

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

Jeremy Paxman

Work Alone Time Art People You

Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.

Jeff Fortenberry

Government Play Role Excessive

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn

Work Humor Sense Of Humor Way Wit

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

Steven Pinker

People Care Forget Used Well Like

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

Tony DiTerlizzi

Water Personality Me You Kind Way

I want to make the world real. I have to be able to believe that it could happen. I can't put Pegasus in my stories because horses can't fly. It's just a quirk in my brain.

Michelle Paver

Brain Fly World Believe Want Real

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Lou Reed

Song Kind Write Little Anything

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Denis Napthine

Freedom Speech Rules Want Protect

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Brad Paisley

Depression Dark Up Imagine Market

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

Prince Royce

Opportunity Blessed Feel Out English