Marcel Pagnol Quotes
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.
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The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.
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How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?
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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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Be just before you're generous.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.
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You can't really label me as a musician, a comedian, or a rapper - you know, it's different.
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I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.
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Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
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Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
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It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.
