Alexandre Dumas Quotes
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
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Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
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Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
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My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
