Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?
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But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
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I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
