Jean Guitton Quotes
It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
