Madame de La Fayette Quotes
I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.
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How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
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I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
