"We have so many words for states of……" — Jeanne Moreau

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so… - Jeanne Moreau

"We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body."

— Jeanne Moreau

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69 Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that…
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines…
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
I've never worried about age.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very,…
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking…
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a…
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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