Honore de Balzac Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
Campbell Scott -
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
Barney Frank
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
Ian Mcewan -
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. Simpson -
I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
Lalla Ward -
I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
Ed O'Neill -
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
Kate Beckinsale -
There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
Edgar Wright
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
Tahl Raz -
I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
Daniel Barenboim -
I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
Gayle Forman -
I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
Tamala Jones -
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
Eddie Marsan -
If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone...
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls -
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac