Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.
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Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibility bitch hoe slut thot saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.
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My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
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My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.
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You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.
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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
