Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

  

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• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

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• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

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• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

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• Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

  

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• My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

  

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• What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.

  

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• Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

  

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• We believe that Ripple will change the way the world thinks about and uses currency through universal access to a trusted, transparent, and easy-to-understand multi-currency financial tool.

  

  Chris Larsen
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• I prefer being able to choose who I want to help or what I want to improve in the world by making a lot of money myself rather than just going out there and talking about things. If you have money to do things, it's much better than just talking about them.

  

  Kim Dotcom
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• So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

  

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• Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

  

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• We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

  

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• I think of how much I've learned from doing television, and it is so invaluable.

  

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• I did voice work for many years before I started having success as an actress. It was mostly radio and television voiceover work, but I know my way around the studio. I know how to use the cappuccino machines and the headphones.

  

  Jane Lynch
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• I would go for the biggest guy on the team, dump the puck in. I would chase after it because I was very fast. If I wanted to get a big hit, I would have to leap into the guy. The guy would be maybe a 6-3 defenseman, 220, I would leap into this guy and plow him over. He would just fall to the ground. That was my thing.

  

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• The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

  

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• I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.

  

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• So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

  

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• The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it..

  

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• People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

  

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• I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

  

  Donald Ray Pollock

• Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand