Honore de Balzac Quotes
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.Honore de Balzac
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
Dan Castellaneta -
I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
Francine Pascal -
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust -
The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
J. H. Wyman -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
Aaron Paul -
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
Hanoi Hannah -
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
Pat Conroy
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I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
Daniel Boulud -
I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. Abrams -
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher -
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Samantha Shannon -
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
Ian Hislop -
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
Jacqueline Leo -
I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
James Murphy -
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac