Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.
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Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
