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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Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.
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I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.
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When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.
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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
