Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
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To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.
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It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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Kerrang asked us to do a heavy metal tribute to one of our favorite heavy metal bands. We had already been jamming out on 'Walk,' so we're like, 'OK. We'll record it for you guys.'
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
