Georges Pompidou Quotes
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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I love to take baths.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
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If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
