Patrick Modiano Quotes
Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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People ask, 'Why is it called 5 Seconds of Summer when there's four of you?'
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
