Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Europe can be saved.
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I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Most style is not honest enough.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
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I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
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(Kirk Gibson's World Series-game-winning home run, October 15, 1988, transcribed from mlb.com archives excising comments by color commentator Joe Garagiola)
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
