When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.


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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL