Charles de Gaulle Quotes
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life.
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If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
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Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
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Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
