Madeleine de Scudery Quotes
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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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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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.
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“You’ll know,” Judith said. “If you ever see him again, you’ll know it’s him because the world will right itself
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
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I got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He's a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews - he was really funny.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
