Pierre Corneille Quotes
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
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Adulthood is hell.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.
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The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.
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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.
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It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.
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If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
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