Jean Genet Quotes
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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I don't persuade to suicide.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.
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But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
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The way was long, the wind was cold,The Minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek, and tresses gray,Seemed to have known a better day.
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On a live performance: 'If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.'
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If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
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I read about the Trinity. I found something - Jesus was Jewish, he was a rabbi! - and I read a lot of stories about Jesus in Israel. And it's interesting that they picked me for this part in The Snack, and I'm Jewish, I'm kind of religious Jewish from Israel, and I don't look like the traditional Jesus with the long blonde hair and blue eyes.
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A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.
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I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
