Rare Quotes
Word Lists
See also Core English Vocabulary (R) List-
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney
Subject: Life QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge
Erwin Knoll
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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it`s so rare.
Daniel P. Moynihan
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Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it
Charles de Saint-Evremond
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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It`s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would...
Ben Okri
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
Keywords: are :: because :: but :: happens :: is :: it :: love :: most :: no :: people :: pilgrimage :: rare :: real :: strategists :: strategy :: there :: very :: whenSubject: Love Quotes :: Pilgrimage QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen
Subject: Funny QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
Mark Twain
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells
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On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman
Keywords: adjustment :: after :: be :: but :: case :: close :: couple :: does :: examination :: falling :: found :: hear :: in :: inevitable :: is :: it :: love :: marriage :: married :: mere :: miraculous :: occasions :: of :: on :: one :: rare :: that :: the :: to :: willSubject: Marriage QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn`t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in the sense that the image i...
Wim Wenders
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[On River Phoenix] River was a remarkable artist and a rare human being. I miss him every day.
Keanu Reeves
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It`s rare to find a director who really likes and knows how to look at a woman through the camera.
Isabelle Adjani
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(Regarding her best known role as Jenny Calendar on Buffy the Vampire Slayer): Jenny is such a great role! It`s wonderful to play a character who is smart, sexy and funny. Really good writing is so rare and Buffy just gets it all right. It`s the kind of r...
Robia LaMorte
Keywords: all :: and :: as :: best :: buffy :: calendar :: character :: dream :: funny :: gets :: good :: great :: her :: is :: it :: jenny :: just :: kind :: known :: of :: on :: play :: rare :: really :: regarding :: right :: role :: sexy :: slayer :: smart :: so :: such :: the :: to :: vampire :: ve :: wonderful :: writingSource: imdb.com
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Hated acting "because, in the final analysis, an actor is only a pawn - brilliant sometimes, rare and talented, capable of bringing pleasure and even inspiration to others, but no less a pawn for that." Hayden`s agent: "This man was born in the wrong cent...
Sterling Hayden
Keywords: acting :: actor :: agent :: an :: analysis :: and :: because :: born :: brilliant :: bringing :: but :: capable :: century :: even :: final :: for :: hated :: hayden :: he :: in :: inspiration :: is :: less :: man :: no :: of :: only :: others :: pawn :: pleasure :: rare :: shoul :: sometimes :: talented :: that :: the :: this :: to :: was :: wrongSource: imdb.com
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I got something pretty rare: American power and a lot of money to distribute the film [Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)] worldwide. I can tell you politicians from right to left are so proud of the film, actors, technicians, everybody except the ind...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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I had a philosophic aversion to it. I didn`t want to do the same thing twice. Then, I realized that my philosophical aversion was bullshit. I realized I liked Alex Cross. And the fact that he`s black is totally incidental. That`s a rare thing for a black ...
Morgan Freeman
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My cinematographic experience did not leave me any souvenirs, because I was only in very bad films that no one saw! It was better they didn`t! In Europe, it is rare for women singers to be in movies. And then, may be that deep within me I didn`t really wi...
Dalida
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[on director Frank Perry] I`ve been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing. That`s why I respect and admire Frank Perry so much. He`s a rare man and I`ve worked with enough stiffs to know the di...
Cliff Robertson
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Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can`t send away for it in a catalogue. And I`m afraid it`s becoming obsolete.
Rosalind Russell
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Upon playing Batman: "I`ve done an absurdly commercial cartoon and now I`m more likely to get hired for a job I couldn`t get hired for before, because I hadn`t done enough movies. It`s so rare when an actor gets hired because he`s right for the role - it ...
Val Kilmer
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Woody Allen makes Woody Allen comedies and they are all about him. Steven Spielberg likes to tell someone else`s story and it is not only about him. Fine direction such as Spielberg`s is rare. You have to be very confident to direct actors. Too many direc...
Samantha Morton
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I get so protective of David [Lynch], like an older sister or something, which is so absurd. He`s not waiting for us to get the movie because he doesn`t think the cinema is about `getting it`. I think he believes - which I`ve found very rare in filmmakers...
Laura Dern
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I was not very comfortable. I always say I`m not very comfortable in love scenes because I`m shy, because I don`t play naked. It`s very rare for a French actor. I have an issue with that. But as I`ve said, when I punch somebody in a movie, I don`t do it f...
Olivier Martinez
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Discussing his illness: "Well the news shocked the hell out of me. Nothing was further from my mind, since I`m only 54 and, with rare exceptions, I`d been healthy my whole life. Not that I don`t deserve to have a cancer. I`m a good athlete and I work out ...
Michael Landon
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Audrey Tautou looks like a little elf with big eyes, like a deer. She`s the perfect actress for me, because she`s able to do both comedy and drama. That`s pretty rare in France. Most French actors are only able to play realistic. Even Catherine Deneuve pl...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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