Leslie Fiedler Quotes
Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.
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I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure - like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
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Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
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The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
