Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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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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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.
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I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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I didn't bear down. It would have been nice to sweep those guys but it was a bad day. It's the first time this has happened in a while.
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That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
