Anatole France Quotes
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.
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Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].
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A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
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I want to score 50 goals. It's my dream.
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Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
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L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
