Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.
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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
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Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
