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Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

Jeanne Moreau

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Jeanne Moreau
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 23
Died: 2017
Died: July 31
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Musician
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Paris 10
Spoken
Gospel
Word
Acting
Love

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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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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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I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
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