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" American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious. "
Isabelle Adjani
Serious
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" My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits. "
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" I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore. "
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" I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. "
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" If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre. "
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" I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. "
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" I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again. "
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" It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think. "
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" It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet! "
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" We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking. "
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" I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again? "
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