Cecile de France Quotes
I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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Since I've been home-schooled since sixth grade, I've practiced six to seven hours a day. I wake up, practice for three hours in the morning, eat lunch, and then go out and play eighteen or more holes.
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
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I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
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'The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.'
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Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
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I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.
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I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
