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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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.
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The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
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At the heart of every great leader is strength and courage.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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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?
