Andre Aciman Quotes
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
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The post of honour is a private station.
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The new plastic idea thus correctly represents actual aesthetic relationships. To the modern artist, it is a natural consequence of all the plastic ideas of the past. This is particularly true of painting, which is the art least bound to contingencies. The picture can be a pure reflection of life in its deepest essence.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
