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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People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
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In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.
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If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
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The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
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We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
