Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.
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I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.
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I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.
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There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.
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As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
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A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.
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Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
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I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?
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I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.
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Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don’t stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you’ve read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.
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I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.
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I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.
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So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
