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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.

Jeanne Moreau

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Jeanne Moreau
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 23
Died: 2017
Died: July 31
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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
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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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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
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Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
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