Anatole France Quotes
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.
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This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt who laughs her head off at the funeral. There rises in me the most inappropriate hysteria in this most somber of places.
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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.
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You know something, man? Some day I'm gonna be walking up the street one way and you're gonna be coming down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.
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This “freedom” put a proud people in chains And turned free men into slaves “Independence” made us weak And slaughtered us In the name of kindness This is democracy by the whip And the fear of chains With a whirlwind at its core
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On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.
