Honore de Balzac Quotes
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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When in doubt, do it.
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Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
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I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'
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The Trump administration has done everything in its power to uphold the harsh racist reality we have faced.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.
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My father would be an amazing, amazing commander in chief.
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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
