Andre Maurois Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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Guys are so visual.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
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I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
