Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.
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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
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The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
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Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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Now she is like everyone else.
