Maurice Druon Quotes
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
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Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.
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I've been successful because I've never been someone to shy away from taking responsibility.
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It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.
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Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
