Andre Maurois Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This 'seeing' is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.
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I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
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We've been talking a lot about the desserts ? private accounts. But not the spinach.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
