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 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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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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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
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As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
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Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
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When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
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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.
