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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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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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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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
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Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
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I don't have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.
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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.
