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.
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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.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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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.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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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.
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If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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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.
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I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like 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.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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“Writing succeeds at whatever it does in spite of the sparseness of its means relative to the worlds evoked.”
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Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
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There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
