Pierre Corneille Quotes
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;The chest contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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Et le combat cessa faute de combattants.
