Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: 'Each to the other we seem insane': Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.
Jean de La Fontaine
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
Gabriella Wilde
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
