The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have this respect and this kind of responsibility on your shoulders, of course you bring the best of yourself.


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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing
ANATOLE FRANCE
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irr...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
ANATOLE FRANCE
We are not happy that he has had a progression of pushing the envelope. We expect everybody to be ag...
BRIAN FRANCE
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but t...
ANATOLE FRANCE
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments
ANATOLE FRANCE
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
ANATOLE FRANCE
He despises men with tenderness
ANATOLE FRANCE
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere
ANATOLE FRANCE
The impotence of God is infinite
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
ANATOLE FRANCE
The future is a convenient place for dreams
ANATOLE FRANCE
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself
ANATOLE FRANCE