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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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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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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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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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 was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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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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My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
