Alphonse Daudet Quotes
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
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Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
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This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
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It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.
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Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
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You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).
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Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.
