Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
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I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great in that way. It's as close to theater as you can get.
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Perfect peace comes only through relating with the Peacemaker himself.
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Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
