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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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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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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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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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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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.
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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.
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The return makes one love the farewell.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
