Honore de Balzac Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.
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Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
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Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
