Francine Prose Quotes

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Play
  • Devil
  • Sword

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Speed
  • Endurance

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Characters

• I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Known

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Blue

• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Home
  • Political
  • English

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Greatest
  • Eating

• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Man
  • Know

• To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God

• Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.

  

  Al Roker
  • Small
  • Trust
  • Wise

• Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Space

• I really believe in melody.

  

  Aulis Sallinen
  • Believe

• We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

  

  Francine Prose
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Someone