Anatole France Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
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It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.
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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
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I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.
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Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.
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As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
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Les amants qui aiment bien n'écrivent pas leur bonheur.
