Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.
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When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
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Tell the truth.
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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
