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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Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
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I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
