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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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
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I have a few methods that I use. One of them that kind of works but is a bit a boring is that I lock myself in the studio and I have four hours to work and come up with stuff. If nothing's sticking in four hours, then I can stop.
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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
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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.
