Georges Bizet Quotes
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
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Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
