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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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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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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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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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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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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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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That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.
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I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.
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Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
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I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.
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If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
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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.
