Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
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It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
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People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
