Jean Giraudoux Quotes
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
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One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.
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I'm never afraid of pattern or texture.
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I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.
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I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.
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I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
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You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
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The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
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I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
