Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
