Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
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Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
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There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing.
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Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
