Ariane Mnouchkine Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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It was intended as an earthly reflection of paradise not just for Mumtaz Mahal, but also for the visitors who would visit it over the years. In fact the larger Taj complex with its forecourt of the Jilaukhana complex and the surrounding bazar and caravanserai zone were meant to accommodate travelers.
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When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me.
