Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent.
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I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
