Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.
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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
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You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.
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An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
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Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
