Maurice Herzog Quotes
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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The prognosis is grim. Between 2000 and 2050, world population will grow by more than three billion to over nine billion people, but this 50 percent increase in global population will come entirely in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as one hundred million people of European stock vanish from the earth.
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'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.
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In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.
