Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.
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I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
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President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
