Andre Gide Quotes
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem - don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.
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From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
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I love football; I enjoy it. That's why I've been in this game as many years as I have. I still like it. I get excited about it.
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If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
