Emil Cioran Quotes

The surest means of not losing your mind on the spot: remembering that everything is unreal, and will remain so...

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Children
  • Help

• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
  • Liar
  • Pen

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
  • Talk
  • Doctor

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Name

• It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Life
  • Money
  • High

• I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Think
  • Nobody
  • Budget

• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Children
  • Will

• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Effort
  • Growth
  • Struggle

• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Real

• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  

  Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Puzzle

• I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Proud

• The surest means of not losing your mind on the spot: remembering that everything is unreal, and will remain so...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Mind