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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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?
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I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
