Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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Whenever I Google for clothes, I always look at what Angelina Jolie is wearing. I love Sienna Miller, and I really like Rihanna's style, too. There's the edgy girl, classy girl, and the Bohemian chic girl. I guess I'm all of that combined into one.
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I never responded to teaching.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.
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Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.
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I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.
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It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
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You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!
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There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
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I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.
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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
