Jean Anouilh Quotes
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I have to be myself.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
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When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
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We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
