Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

  

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• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

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• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  

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• My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

  

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• There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  

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• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

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• I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

  

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• I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

  

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• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

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• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  

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• I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

  

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• I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

  

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• I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

  

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• Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

  

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• The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

  

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

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• I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

  

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• The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

  

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• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

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• People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
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• At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Stage
  • Cloak
  • Wraps