Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
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The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.
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I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
