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“When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.”
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“Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.”
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“No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.”
Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.64, Booklassic
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“I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.”
Source : "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
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“Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.”
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“I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.”
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“The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.”