Bernard Pivot Quotes
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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History's a resource.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
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I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.
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I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.
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I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
