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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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion!
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In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
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I only know one thing. I have been bred through the Heat organization to do it one way. And every day, you prepare.
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.