Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
L'histoire, encore que mensongère,Contient des vérités qui servent de leçons.Tout parle en mon ouvrage, et même les poissons.Ce qu'ils disent s'adresse à tout tant que nous sommes;Je me sers d'animaux pour instruire les hommes.
Quotes to Explore
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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Justice is revenge.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I know about raising money.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we'd read the 'Post,' and that was what we had.
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The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
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POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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L'histoire, encore que mensongère,Contient des vérités qui servent de leçons.Tout parle en mon ouvrage, et même les poissons.Ce qu'ils disent s'adresse à tout tant que nous sommes;Je me sers d'animaux pour instruire les hommes.
