Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
