Pierre Corneille Quotes
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I don't feel closeted.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
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It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.
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That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
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I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly... Real killers...no matter the industry or company geography.
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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
