Daniel Pennac Quotes
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I've been blessed to play these great parts that just open another door and another door, is I guess how it's worked.
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Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.
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As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?
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One of the things I like most about Caravaggio is the sense of an unfolding emotional journey you get with his art. Early Caravaggios are sarky, confident, brazen. Late Caravaggio’s are dark, exhausted, tearful. A life put through the wringer.
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I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
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All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
