Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy) Quotes
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
