Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
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'Can't we just all get a bong and tag along.'
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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
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If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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As designers, we have a great responsibility.
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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
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As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
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Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
