Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
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When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave me a program and guided me through my runs, showing me how to take care of myself and letting me know I should ice my legs and stretch - stuff I hadn't been doing.
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I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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Along thy wild and willow'd shore.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
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When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.
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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
