Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.
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I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.
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Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.
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I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.
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Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
