Victor Hugo Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.
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For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.
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I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
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In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
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Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
