Emile Zola Quotes
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
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If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
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Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
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I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
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The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.
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Everything is only a dream.
