Madame de Stael Quotes
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call upon someone like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it the strength it needs.
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I have a great love of animals and laughter.
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Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.
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There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
