Emile Chartier Quotes
We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
