Honore de Balzac Quotes
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
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Man's legal rights are everywhere in collision with man's natural rights; hence the deep-rooted and wide-spread unrest of modern civilization. The only sacred right of property is the natural right of the working man to the product, which is the creation of his labor. The legal right of the capitalist to rent and interest and profit is the absolute denial of the natural right of labor.
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The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing my daughter for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?
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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
