Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
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I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?
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Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.
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It was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at me, she was trying to find me, trying to find out who I was. But it seemed at that moment that she saw me, that she knew me. But that confused me.
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Everything was believed except the truth.
