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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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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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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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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I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.
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I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
