Jean Racine Quotes
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
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I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband. I'd like to continue with the action stuff, but when I get to play the father/husband role, I think that will be the time where I'm playing who I really am. I look forward to playing those kind of heroic characters, the types that are usually associated with Denzel Washington.
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
