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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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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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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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.
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It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
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There's nothing new about European anti-Americanism. To go to a dinner party of intellectuals in Paris in 1960 was like walking into a tiger's den with a piece of raw meat in your hands.
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What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
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What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
