Andre Gide Quotes
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.
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There’s not one youngster growing up in the D.C. area in that era who didn’t want to be a boxer. Fighting was a way of life, If you weren’t tough, people would take advantage of you.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
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Parties are a cruel kind of fun.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
