Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980

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ExperiencePeopleActingQuestion

People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.

Jennifer Egan

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What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

Robert Palmer

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Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

Smokey Robinson

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What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

Robert Caro

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There's a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there's this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.

Miesha Tate

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I do like reality TV like 'The Voice.' I enjoyed working there every single day. It was amazing.

Monica

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As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jonathan Levine

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'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

Johnny Knoxville

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I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

Broderick Crawford

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Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.

Antony Beevor

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For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we've all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.

Ali Krieger

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