Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
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Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
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I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
