Gabrielle Roy Quotes
'Don’t preach,' said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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Watching NASCAR with my wife is like taking a test. Every single turn, she has a question. Now, here's the problem. Sometimes her questions actually make sense. I don't have an answer for them. So, I have to that guy thing and go Pfft! You ever hear your man do that, ladies? That means he doesn't know the answer, but he's thinking.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
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'Don’t preach,' said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.
