Honore de Balzac Quotes
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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From caring comes courage.
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I'm hoping I'll eventually get to be a beauty blogger myself because I do my own makeup, and I have for years.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
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I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.
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For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.
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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
