Edouard Vuillard Quotes
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
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I didn't do anything special after the French Open, after winning the tournament. I just had a nice dinner with my team and family, but I was so exhausted that I went to sleep early and couldn't stay up.
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To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
