Octave Mirbeau Quotes
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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O early one morning I walked out like Agag,Early one morning to walk through the fireDodging the pythons that leaked on the pavementsWith tinkle of glasses and tangle of wire.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
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It's hard, but I try not to think of happiness as either pending or in the past.
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In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
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I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people.
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Modelling's not something I want to do just on its own, but I always want it to be a part of my life.
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For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.
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I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.
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I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
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Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.
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Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
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One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.
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Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
