Nathalie Quotes & Sayings

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.' — Nathalie Emmanuel

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds. — Nathalie Sarraute

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people. — Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. — Nathalie Sarraute

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. — Nathalie Sarraute

I have loved you from the moment you opened your eyes, and I will continue to love you long after I close mine. I will always be yours Aurora. I don't exist without you. — Nathalie Saade

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed. — Nathalie Emmanuel

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. — Nathalie Sarraute

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. — Nathalie Sarraute

Never compare your grief.
You - and only you
walk your path. — Nathalie Himmelrich

Maybe this journey is a way for you to get your redemption..." he said softly, "Maybe, if Elder Man Belduran is right, it is the start of a journey, that leads to redemption for all of us..."

"Not all of us... There's no redemption for Elder Man Vaymaz..." Melchor replied softly, before turning and continuing to walk. — Nathalie M.L. Romer

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster. — Nathalie Sarraute

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently. — Agnes Varda

It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving. — Nathalie Himmelrich

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show. — Nathalie Emmanuel

There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little. — Nathalie Emmanuel

We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design. — Nathalie Kelley

I have never sought the reason why I write. — Nathalie Sarraute

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. — Nathalie Sarraute

Grief is a universal experience
from which no one
will be spared. — Nathalie Himmelrich

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. — Nathalie Sarraute

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language! — Nathalie Emmanuel

In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter. — Xavier Dolan

Why are you stripping in my front yard at six in the morning? I have neighbors you know. — Nathalie Saade

With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations. — Nathalie Emmanuel

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. — Nathalie Sarraute

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem - because in that instant, I am everywhere. — Nathalie Handal

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen. — Nathalie Sarraute

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else. — Nathalie Sarraute

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering! — Nathalie Emmanuel

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. — Pat Conroy

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible. — Nathalie Sarraute

My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun. — Nathalie Emmanuel

Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing. — Nathalie Sarraute

Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly. — Lilith Saintcrow

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own. — Nathalie Kelley

Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts. — Nathalie Sarraute

I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan. — Nathalie Emmanuel

The nudity is down to the individual actor or actress. If they feel comfortable and it's done in a way that they feel comfortable doing, then who am I to say anything? — Nathalie Emmanuel

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear. — Nathalie Sarraute

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it. — Nathalie Kelley

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute

I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people. — Nathalie Sarraute

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief. — Nathalie M. Leblanc

Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone. — Nathalie Emmanuel

THE CHAMP A novel by Daniel Martin Eckhart Dedicated to my wife Nathalie and our children Nick, Milo and Eliza for all their love, laughter and patience. Thank you for letting me be part of your journeys. Copyright — Daniel Martin Eckhart

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things. — Nathalie Emmanuel

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character. — Nathalie Kelley

I enjoy being healthy and I enjoy feeling healthy, and I know the difference when I don't take of myself. It's not like I am aiming for any particular goal or anything. It's more like it's a result of having balanced, healthy meals and just exercising. — Nathalie Emmanuel

Despite Lowell's determination to be 'surrounded by Catholics,' the couple instantly got swept up into the fast, loud current of atheist-Jewish-Marxist-hard-drinking-fast-talking literary New York. Philip Rahv and Nathalie Swan took a shine to Lowell and Stafford, and soon they were getting invited to the Rahv's combative, whiskey-soaked parties. — David Laskin

The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ... — Nathalie Handal

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. — Nathalie Sarraute

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. — Nathalie Sarraute

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly. — Nathalie Emmanuel

I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning. — Nathalie Emmanuel

I've done a nude scene and I felt it was appropriate to the storyline and I thought it was done in a respectful way and I felt comfortable doing it. But there are obviously going to be scenarios - not necessarily in this job, but in other jobs to come - where the question will be posed to me 'Will I want to do nude scenes?' and I would have to consider that as its own thing. And not just something to say yes to because I have done so before. It really is circumstantial. — Nathalie Emmanuel

I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible. — Nathalie Emmanuel

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. — Nathalie Sarraute

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious. — Nathalie Emmanuel

We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all eternity, under the grime of centuries, beyond time. When even the paint falls off and these prison-canvases are bare again ... well, then we are in limbo, the poor man opened his eyes wide giving them a ghostly look. — Nathalie M. Leblanc

I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves. — Nathalie Emmanuel

I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow. — Nathalie Handal