Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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And then mentally, do I have the patience to see that through?
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If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
