Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
