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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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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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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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
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I've been given that gift of working with Jack Nicholson and James Coburn and certain people who just out of nowhere break into stories - talking about working with Alfred Hitchcock or Kubrick. That's my real reward of my career.
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
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I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.
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My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.
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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.
