Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
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The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.
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There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
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'Most of my business comes from picking up the pieces when people get things wrong.' She grinned. 'I’ll never lack for work.'
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
