Claire Denis Quotes

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Claire Denis

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LifeWomenLiveWomanLittle Girls

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

Jim Mattis

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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Jodi Picoult

BookThinkChooseDeadMoreOut

My job is just to go out and play hard every day.

Andrew Benintendi

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I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.

Ana Ortiz

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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Sting

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When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows.

Ron White

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I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

Lucy Hale

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Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Judi Dench

LiveSocietySometimesEverything

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Jared Kushner

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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

Donna Leon

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I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

Chiaki Kuriyama

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The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

Chris Raschka

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