Charles de Gaulle Quotes
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Baz Luhrmann is a very visual director. He needs to see things as they would unfold in his world.
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
