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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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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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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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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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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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
