Honore de Balzac Quotes

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
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• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.

  

  Frank Stella
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• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
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• If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Law
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• If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Man
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• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
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• I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Hip Hop
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• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
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• Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Earth
  • Heaven
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• By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Firsts
  • Genuine
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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Kill
  • Genuine
  • Inherit