Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
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The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.
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When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
