Raymond Queneau Quotes
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I like being by myself.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid.
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Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
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I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.
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'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.
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I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
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I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
