Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
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Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
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I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.
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The successful men I admired all built their bodies.
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We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy. I'll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I've seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material.
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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
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I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
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The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
