Paul Claudel Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
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I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
