Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.
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A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.
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As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
