Rene Girard (René Noël Théophile Girard) Quotes
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Naguib Mahfouz -
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon -
The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
Mae Jemison -
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt -
My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
Kaley Cuoco -
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Iris Apfel
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino -
You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
Dan Quinn -
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
Pat Brown -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
Manolo Blahnik -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
Nate Torrence
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I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
Tab Hunter -
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Gary Oldman -
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz -
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
N. T. Wright -
Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
Damian Marley
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I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.
Paul Auster -
People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
When you give your word to a woman, you sign a life time contract. You cannot lie to her any more.
Adriano Celentano -
Individualism is a formidable lie.
Rene Girard