Pierre Corneille Quotes
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
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When I was auditioning, I didn't know it was 'Daredevil.' Everything was secret. They're secret agents. They wouldn't give you any clues. I was a big fan of the show, and I think it helped me, once I got the part, to really understand the world that they live in. It helped me during shooting.
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'Forever Evil' is my love letter to DC super villains. It's my chance to take all of the villains I've worked with and all the ones I've never worked with and put them into one gigantic, epic story that will bring together the bads of the DC Universe.
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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
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The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
