Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
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I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
