Francoise Sagan Quotes
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

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We continue to be bullish on China.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.
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After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.