Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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I would read all day if I could.
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I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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I always want to improve.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.
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I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
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The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
