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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If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.
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I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
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You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
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Love is boundary-less.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
