Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I love girl power.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
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People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.