Raymond Queneau Quotes
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
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I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.
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Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
