Madame de Stael Quotes
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started.
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I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
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All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
