Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
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The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
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I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.
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I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
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In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.
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There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.
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Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves - unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don't really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a spouse, or a child with a 'preexisting condition.'
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
