Pierre Corneille Quotes
Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.
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While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."
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I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.
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Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.
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Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
