Victor Hugo Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I just want to do my job.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.
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Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
