Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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I love to conduct opera.
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I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
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Beijing is my favorite city in China.
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I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.
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I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
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There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
