Jean Racine Quotes
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
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There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group - that’s teamwork.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.
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And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
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You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you answer. Don’t ask why this delights me.
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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
