Edouard Manet Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
