Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I need instant gratification.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
