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Leila Slimani Quotes

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Girl Men Child World Feel Emotions

I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

Winter Character Great Job Peace

I don't want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I'm completely confused. I'm like, 'Didn't you make that movie already?' I've been very fortunate, and I'm well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

People Forward Care Confused You Go

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

Water People Cold Long You Jump

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

Best Quality Fight Computers Price

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Stephen Hawking

Time People Universe Why Discussion

What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.

Future People Society Think Look

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

I Am Think Worth Exploring Something

New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.

Myself New York Feel New Know Core

My punches are crisp, powerful, and sharp.

Powerful Sharp Punches Crisp

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

Mother Best I Am Me Mom Believe

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

Chris Meledandri

Think Anything Universal Owning Pets

At the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.

Life Journey Death End Now Strange

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