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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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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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
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If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.'
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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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.
