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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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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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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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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The best approach to this cultural revolution is therefore through family and household, i.e. through the structure of relations between the secondhand generations. In most societies this had been impressively resistant to sudden change, though this does not mean that such structures were static.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
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It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.
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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
