Alain de Botton Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
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I'm trying to show everybody that I'm a girl, and I'm five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It's your world, too!
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There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
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We see people from 6 to 60 years old at the shows.
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Life is near-death experience.
