Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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There is no one true church.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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I'm very religious.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.
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I'm like Elaine Stritch everywhere.
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I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
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For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
