Victor Hugo Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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I love so many styles of music.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
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I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
