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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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'
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I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.
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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.
