Alfred de Musset Quotes
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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You have to follow that next step.
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In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I know that I have my friends to rely on.
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Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
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The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
