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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick -
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
Jack Nicholson -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
Daniel Gillies
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
Aaron Staton -
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust -
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott -
We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian -
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
Najib Razak
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
Carl Paladino -
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
Vicente del Bosque -
Everything goes with blond. You can wear it with any color, and it's great.
Sam Heughan -
I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
Nandan Nilekani -
I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
Zoe Wanamaker -
Never wear plaid.
Dylan McDermott
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One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.
Cobie Smulders -
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
E. Nesbit -
Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.
Bjorn Lomborg -
So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.
Karl Marx -
Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.
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