Jean Giraudoux Quotes
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
