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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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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It's so funny because, when the other world was being hatched and conceived, I just kept hearing, "Don't do that! That's a huge mistake! People love your characters. Why go to these new ones?" And I was like, "No, we can do this! I'm invested. Why wouldn't they be?"
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I cannot do politics under someone else's control.
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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.
