Honore de Balzac Quotes
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.
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Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
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What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.
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Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
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I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
