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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress."
"The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people's eyes or by looking deep within themselves."
"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."
"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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