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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

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People Name You Acting Know Inside

I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!

Time Same Tell Because Like Stories

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

Strength Wait Want Band Same Sign

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Freedom Great You Authority Human

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

You Want Company Making Those About

When I'm not boxing, I play instruments.

Play Boxing Instruments

Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

Food Feel Uncomfortable Credit Cards

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

Change Woman Words Start End Say

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Moment Choices Possibilities You Our

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Yourself Happy People Mind Be Happy

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

Job Appreciate You Security Want

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

Moment Action Feel You Find Movies

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Personality Think Learn You Kind

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