Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I adored my father.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
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I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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That hurt me - that's what drove me into depression where I didn't care. Once I saw my grandmother and him, I lost all of what I had in me. I said, 'He's the reason she looks like that.' I'm still not out of it. I get real disturbed at night. Imagine this person you came out of the womb looking up to. It's just tough, man.
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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The useful and the beautiful are never separated.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
