Emile Zola Quotes

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

Emile Zola

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• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Worry

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Great
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• I shall always be a priest of love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Always
  • Priest

• The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

  

  Baltasar Garzon
  • People
  • Law
  • Politics

• Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • True
  • Best
  • Optimist

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Distance
  • Now

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • Why
  • Night

• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  

  Idi Amin
  • People
  • Country
  • Law

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Small
  • Me
  • Best

• My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Comedy
  • Deep
  • Problems

• Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • May
  • Fun
  • Stop

• I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • Up
  • Work

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Good
  • Independent
  • Films

• A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Good
  • Struggle
  • Blood