Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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Life is a beautiful struggle People search through the rubble for a suitable hussle Some people using their noodle Some people using their muscle Some people put it all together make it fit like a puzzle
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'No!' shouted Arthur. 'What's wrong with you? They're people! You can't just kill hundreds or thousands of Piper's children because the Piper might... just might... make some of them do something!' 'Can't we?' asked Dame Primus. She sounded genuinely puzzled.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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And why is it 'homophobic' for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy in public bathrooms is the essence of being gay? I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital.
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It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.
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I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
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You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
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The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
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There's a lot of confusion. There's a lot frustration and anger.
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Je ne veux point de rois qui sachent obéir.
