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.
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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.
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I have a great team at WME.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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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.
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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.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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For your information, I would like to ask a question.
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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.
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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.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
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There are two types of men: the great and the small.
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My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.
