Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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At the MTV Movie Awards, I was wearing a dress, and that red carpet is outside, and Victoria Justice was going before me on the red carpet. Apparently she's like the biggest star in the world, so everybody was just like 'Victoria! Victoria!' so I am just standing there, and a couple of reporters were just like 'Hello.' And then my skirt just flies up, and I was like 'Take that, Victoria Justice!'
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I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
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The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
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Ma générosité cède enfin à sa haine.
