Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I really love storytelling.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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Taxes suck. They really stink.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
