Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
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My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.
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You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.
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I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.
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My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
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If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
