Francois Mauriac Quotes
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
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And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
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Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.
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The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
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Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
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Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
