Patrick Modiano Quotes
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.Patrick Modiano
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
Adam Lambert -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
Vikram Patel -
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
Sam Tsui -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson -
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
Dan Glickman
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Natalie Massenet -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
Edan Lepucki -
R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
R. Kelly -
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
Ogden Nash -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
Felicia Day -
That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
Yayoi Kusama -
People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole -
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
Patrick Modiano