Jacques Derrida Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I aspire only to silence.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I just cry. I'm joking: I love my job.
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Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.
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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
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I don't ever feel like I have to stop myself from complaining about how hard it is to be an actress. I mean, it's not that hard.
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Who ever said that one was born just once?
