Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
