Georges Courteline Quotes
Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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You were born as the one you are.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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No one can guarantee success of a film.
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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
