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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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
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I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
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If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.
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On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.
