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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A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
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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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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly when they laugh at a line I've stolen from one of my family members and put in the film. That excites me a great deal.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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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.
