Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes
The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
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Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
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What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
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I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.
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I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
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The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
