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Andre Gide Quotes

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951

Topics

Fear Monsters Who Few Very Them

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

People Generation Divorce New Want

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

Vanity Down Cultures Image Own Some

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Mother History Wife Hopeless Try

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

Work Day Doing Week Every Day Would

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.

Today Speak Way Politicians Yes Off

Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.

Faith Performance Think Someone You

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Job Brain Start Key Learn You

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

Work Time Thought Career Down Hard

The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.

Women Men Strong Fighting Gender

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Me You Website Started Would Send

It's an amazing feeling, having a little child. I love it.

Love Child Amazing Feeling Little

It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.

Decision Best Selfish Cinema Young

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