John Steinbeck Quotes
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I never read the tabloids.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
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I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
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So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.
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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
