Victor Hugo Quotes
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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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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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Men in great place are thrice servants,-servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.
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But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
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May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
