Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.
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I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.
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If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.
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Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?
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I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.
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Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.
