Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
