Victor Hugo Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.
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I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
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With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.
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I have long been an advocate of school choice, but I also believe the problem lies with school administrators and union leaders who refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad school.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
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The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.
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I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
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I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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Yet I argue notAgainst Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate one jotOf heart or hope; but still bear up, and steerRight onward.
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I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
