Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I shop, therefore I am.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
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There is no life without challenge or adversity. So we have to decide whether to treat it as a friend or a foe.
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I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
