"Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth"

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Source : Françoise Giroud, Claude Glayman (1974). “I Give You My Word”

Francoise Giroud

#Difficult Quotes #Myth Quotes #Competing Quotes

“When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.”
“I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.”
“Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.”
“I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.”
“Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.”
“In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.”
“Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.”
“How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.”

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