Alain de Botton Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.
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My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
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My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.
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When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
