Patrick Modiano Quotes
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Quotes to Explore
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. 1
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Females choose; their choosiness is inherited; they prefer exaggerated ornaments; exaggerated ornaments are a burden to males.
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The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.
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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
