Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
