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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I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
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I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
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Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I'd like to believe we know the difference between those two things. The movies that work, work when there is a story there that you can take the toy out of, but when you put the toy in, it becomes an even more amazing experience for whatever reason.
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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.
