Patrick Modiano Quotes
Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.
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I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.
