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“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”
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“I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.”
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“I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.”
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“By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.”
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“I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.”
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“I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.”
Source : "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.
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“Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.”
Source : "NAACP Endorses Same-sex Marriage" By Jason Donner, www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2012.
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“Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.”
Source : Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.43, Univ of California Press
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“There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.”