Georges Simenon Quotes

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Georges Simenon

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

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• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

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• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

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• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

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• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

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• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
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  • Taking

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
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• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Future
  • Idea
  • Debt

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
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• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Right
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• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
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• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

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  • Movies
  • Two
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• I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • God
  • Winning
  • Thought

• When somebody loves youIt's no good unless he loves you - all the wayHappy to be near youWhen you need someone to cheer you - all the way.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Good
  • Cheer

• So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains, Wherein rude winter bound her veins; So grows both stream and source of price, That lately fettered were with ice. So naked trees get crispèd heads, And coloured coats the roughest meads, And all get vigour, youth and spright, That are but looked on by his light.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Earth
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• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

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  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

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• Honestly, I am a shy person.

  

  Blake Lively

• I'll always be an outrageous character.

  

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• When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Poetry

• If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

  

  Georges Simenon
  • Poetry
  • Vision
  • Necessarily