Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
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Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because 'many hands make light work.' The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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That's what my life is, writing songs.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
