Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) Quotes
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I'm only a human being.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
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I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.
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What happens in the Premier League is that when they arrive in the area, they punish you.
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Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.
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I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.
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Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
