Patrick Modiano Quotes

I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.

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• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Meaning
  • Saying

• I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Always
  • Person
  • Going

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Call
  • Phone

• I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Play
  • Him

• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Listening

• My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Character
  • Sister
  • Office

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Power
  • Alone

• These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Sometimes
  • Movies

• I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Day

• Anything that terrible had to be healthy.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Healthy
  • Terrible

• Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Life
  • World
  • Business

• Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • Suffering
  • Christ
  • Animals

• The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Why

• Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Society
  • Cities
  • Interests

• I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.

  

  Patrick Modiano