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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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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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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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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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 love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.
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I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
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I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!
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If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
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I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
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I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
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My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.
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I write the most sexiest records out.
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If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
