Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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Go West, young man.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
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I struggled for so long to try to create a career.
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Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
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I have been a producer and director for many years, and I can say it's really difficult for women, although the women in Mexico suffer as much as other women in the world. The first thing is to get respect for the work you do. Then it is about getting the money. And this respect comes little by little over the years.
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When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.
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I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
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If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
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The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present. (p. 193)
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I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.
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A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.
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The offensive line was getting a real good push, ... I feel if I can see a little hole, I can get to it, and that was happening today.
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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
