Honore de Balzac Quotes
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
Quotes to Explore
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.
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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
