Jake Paltrow Quotes
For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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In all the shows I've done, I'm always the first to leave - it's in my make-up.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
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For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
