Victor Hugo Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
