Leila Slimani Quotes

You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

Leila Slimani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 3, 1981

Topics

LoveMotherChildrenTimeJealousy

Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

Anand Giridharadas

TechnologyPromisesFeelLossMagic

I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, 'I'm a lost boy from Neverland.' I decided to post it to Vine, and it got the biggest reaction I'd ever gotten. People wanted to hear more, and I had to explain it wasn't a song.

Ruth B

PeopleRandomSongDownLostBoy

Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.

Luis Alberto Urrea

StarsLiveRoadMusiciansWishRock

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

Louis Begley

WorkSafetyWorldBookYearMatter

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Lisa Murkowski

StrengthFreedomSelf-Reliance

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

GreenOldBuyEvenBananasGetting

When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.

Bruno Maag

ValueDesignYouCreatePageAim

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Arne Jacobsen

TimePeopleBuildingHellWillSome

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

Philip K. Dick

I AmKnowFewAmElect

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Philip Dunne

LoveAloneYourselfPeopleYouMore

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

Peter O'Toole

GreatFunLovedDoingYearClass

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

Tye Sheridan

GoodDramaSomethingGuess

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