Octave Mirbeau Quotes
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
Quotes to Explore
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
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I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc.
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Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
