Victor Hugo Quotes
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I don't hold grudges.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.
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Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
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Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
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When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.
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We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
