Emile Gaboriau Quotes
In romance we meet with heroines of lifelong constancy: real life produces no such miracles.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.
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Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.
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Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
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You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
