Andre Derain Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.
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The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
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We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.
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My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
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I do not innovate. I transmit.
