Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.
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I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.
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People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
