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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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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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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I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
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Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.
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If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
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In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.
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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.
