Andre Gide Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
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My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
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I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.
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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
