Andre Gide Quotes
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Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
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If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.
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The decorative designs at intersections has been known to slow people down. When everything looks the same, people slow down. Widening the sidewalks a couple of inches will narrow the roadway and that's a proven way to slow drivers down.
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We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
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Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
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The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
