Jean Anouilh Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
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Although we don't know what is outside our universe, astronomers still wonder. Several pictures of what there might be have been dreamed up. An interesting one, called multiverse, has lots of universes. Picture it as a foam of bubbles. Our universe would be one bubble, and we'd be surrounded by lots of other bubbles.
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Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
