Andre Maurois Quotes
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.
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I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
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I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
