Madame de Stael Quotes
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be intimidated by me.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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After moving to California, I decided to go back to school and get an education on various aspects of the entertainment industry.
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His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
