Jean Genet Quotes

So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • True
  • Celebrity

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career

• I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Humor
  • Pieces
  • Disregard

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
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  • Controversy

• I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
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  • Help
  • Mom

• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Strength
  • Motherhood

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

  

  Kelly Brook
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Independent

• Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Character
  • Single

• When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Air
  • English

• The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Long
  • Light
  • Eyes

• The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Words
  • Vision

• So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.

  

  Jean Genet
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