Octave Mirbeau Quotes

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
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• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
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• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
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• I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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  • Dream
  • Childhood

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  

  Barbara Johnson
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• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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• For your information, I would like to ask a question.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Cancer

• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  

  Sally Kirkland
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  • Book

• Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

  

  Joel Salatin
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• In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.

  

  Dan Schulman
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  • Hope

• Being a parent is amazing.

  

  Angela Kinsey
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• At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

  

  Carl Rakosi
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• Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

  

  Kenny Marchant
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• Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
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