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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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.
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Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.
