Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
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I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.
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If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.
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I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
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I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.
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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.
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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
