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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.
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Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
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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.
