Victor Hugo Quotes
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.
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Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
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I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.
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I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.
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The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.
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I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
