Raymond Queneau Quotes
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I know what poverty is.
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Women just love to shop.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.
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These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.
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I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.
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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
