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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I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
