Madame de Stael Quotes
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.
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Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.
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I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.
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Anything to do with the land, I love.
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If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
