Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
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And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
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I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.
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I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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I have very little regard for consensus if it blinds you to the truth.
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...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
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When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.
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A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,De juger les gens sur la mine.
