Emile Zola Quotes
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
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I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at a bank as a day job about seven years ago. I was writing novels at night and decided, "Wow, there's so much great TV, and they're telling the complex, interesting, psychologically nuanced stories that, as a novelist, you dream of telling. And it's a healthy, exciting, thriving medium - that's where I need to be."
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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I just think Brian d'Arcy James is a dream come true. I've known of him ever since I saw him in 'Titanic,' and I fell crazy in love with him at that moment.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?