Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Anniversary

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Opinion

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Electricity
  • Keep Going

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Always
  • Actor

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Real

• When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

  

  Plato
  • Dead
  • Battle
  • Enjoy Life

• I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Writer

• When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Repels