Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Quotes
One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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I really like to cook.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.
