Paul Valery Quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I'm an outsider.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.
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Never in the history of niggadom...
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It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
