Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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Abortion is a blessing.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
