Ferdinand Foch Quotes
(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
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After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
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If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
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It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
