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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Jeanne Moreau

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Jeanne Moreau
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 23
Died: 2017
Died: July 31
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I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
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You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.
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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
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I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
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I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
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You should not separate your life from what you do.
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
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