Victor Hugo Quotes
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
