Victor Hugo Quotes
Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
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Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.
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You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.
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If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
