Victor Hugo Quotes
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
Quotes to Explore
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Genius sees the answer before the question.
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I feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As a grown man, you're more confident, and you have less to prove.
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Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
