Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
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The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.
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I think I owe my life to cork soles.
