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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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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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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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.
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Qué te he dado, lo sé. Qué has recibido, no lo sé.
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Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
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What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
