Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
