Emil Cioran Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable.
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Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
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Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.
