Jean Racine Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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A true man hates no one.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.
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Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
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The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
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Some people get a kick out of Taylor Hicks being their landlord.
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A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
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I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter
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I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
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I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.
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I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
