Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
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Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, 'There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering...In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.
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A singer must be able to sing any kind of song
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
