Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
