Honore de Balzac Quotes
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
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There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
