Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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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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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.
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Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
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The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
