Jean Giraudoux Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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Only the poor can create art.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
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In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.
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The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
