Maurice Blanchot Quotes
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
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I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.
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We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.
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The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.
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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
