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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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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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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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'
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Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
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Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The old man made himself look hard at the Raven and saw that it was not a great bird from the sky but the work of men like himself. This first encounter turned out to be peaceful. The men of the La Pérouse expedition were under strict orders to treat with respect any people they might discover, an exceptional policy for its time and after.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
