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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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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The flower of olden sanctities.
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
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Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
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If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
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Exploring physical sensations and discovering the location and shape of the imprints of past trauma on the body.
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New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
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Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,De juger les gens sur la mine.
