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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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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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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I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.
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I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
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I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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My drag name was Revvlon.
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Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
