Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
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She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.
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Not that he was jealous of the machine-but it was reassuring to know that there was still something that human beings could do that machines could not master.Love.
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I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
