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 like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
Axl Rose
Guns N' Roses
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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
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It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
Eddie Condon
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
George Eliot
