Gabrielle Roy Quotes
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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Change is never easy.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
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All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
