Jacques Maritain Quotes
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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We just here to do our job.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
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That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.
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The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
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Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.
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I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.
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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
