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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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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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
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I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.
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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.
