Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
