Pierre Loti Quotes
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I had this almost secret life of going to 'Star Wars' conventions because,' when I was younger, Star Wars' had phased into the uncool part of its life and had yet to become cool again for everybody else.
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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
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I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
