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Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes

When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: french
Birth: October 4, 1977

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Diversity Me Roots Face Feel You

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

Woman Me Thank You You Seeing Said

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Melissa McCarthy

Friend Weird Wonder Boring Never

I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.

Love Feel Want Way Canvas Big

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.

War Evil Enemy Movies Become Never

They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Good Girl Job Woman School College

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

Politics Engage Democrats Get Most

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Compassion Criticism Care Everything

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

Fear Animals Him Which Peter Were

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

Women Strong Enjoy Powerful Play

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.

Love Time Focus Day People End

I'm not desensitized to death.

A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

Life Money Walk Government Small

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