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		There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernando Pessoa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Christensen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Faith Prince 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Namie Amuro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Levie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vincent Cassel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bailee Madison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry the Cable Guy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lao Tzu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gattlin Griffith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yasmine Al Masri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orhan Pamuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there's not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I'd say Heaven awaits you, my friend. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James McBride 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George A. Romero 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that I wanted to act. By the time I was 12, I was hell-bent on it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marc Warren 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernando Pessoa