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.Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
Rachel Dratch -
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.
Madeleine Stowe -
You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
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.
Sally Schneider -
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.
Octavio Paz -
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.
Bat for Lashes
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
Vaclav Klaus -
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill -
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.
Walter Kirn -
I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
Orhan Pamuk -
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.
Orson Pratt -
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
Jack Vance -
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.
Courtney Love -
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley -
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
Nelson Mandela -
My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
Jake Tapper -
All the exhausting aspects of my job are made worthwhile because I get to experience so many different cultures. It makes you really appreciate the memories.
Alek Wek
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory -
I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.
Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves -
My parting words are I’m excited for what’s next. It’s easy for me to sit over a 20 year career and say what I’ve done right or what I’ve done wrong but, I ultimately I have a perspective that’s very clear and educated on an art form.
Jonathan Mannion -
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong -
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
Whoopi Goldberg -
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.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas