Patrick Modiano Quotes
Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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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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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
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I don't ever enjoy time away from the game. But it does make you appreciate what you have.
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I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.