Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I'm a pacifist by nature.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
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I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
