Paul Valery Quotes
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
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I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.
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I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
