Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
N. K. Jemisin
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
Randall Park
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Imelda Staunton
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Quincy Jones
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
Gayle Forman
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston
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I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
Rachel True
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
Larry David
