Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
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I’m not a freak. That’s a horrible thing to say." "That’s where you’re going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that’s what you two are..." "You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
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I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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Even though it has been nearly 2,000 years since Christ's first coming, His second coming is certain.
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Respectable people... What bastards!
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
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Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.
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The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
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I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
