Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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There's no regrets for me.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.
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I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.
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I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
