Henri Rousseau Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
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It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies...
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Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.
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I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.