Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.
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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
