Patrick Modiano Quotes

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Song
  • Space
  • Emotional

• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Hair
  • First
  • Broadway

• I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • See
  • First
  • Lady

• I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Daughter
  • First
  • Old

• The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Money
  • First
  • Been

• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Think
  • First
  • Contract

• I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • First
  • Theater
  • Grade

• I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Back

• One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Obsessed
  • Atom Bomb

• Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Leader
  • First
  • Union

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Back

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space.

  

  David Mackay
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Amazing

• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Want
  • Hips

• As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Pride

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Believe

• Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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