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 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 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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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
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I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
