Honore de Balzac Quotes
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
