Francoise Sagan Quotes
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
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I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
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I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.
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Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
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After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
