Alexandre Dumas Quotes
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.
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You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.
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You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
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To play an older woman, 'til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it's different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.
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I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.
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I love so much the models from the '60s and the '70s. They were extremely professional, great models who knew how to work the camera so well and loved fashion and had a great sense of style.
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My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
