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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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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When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.
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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.
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As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
