Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.
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My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.
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We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
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Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
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'Ralph's Party' was supposed to be a psychological thriller, but I fell in love with all my characters and wanted only the best for them.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.