Patrick Modiano Quotes

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

Patrick Modiano

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• I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Live
  • Taken
  • Streets

• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Never
  • Radio
  • Interviews

• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • College
  • Start
  • Changes

• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • Everything
  • Out
  • Sobriety

• I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Question
  • Air
  • Speak

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Age
  • Being
  • Early

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Choose

• You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.

  

  Jill Paice
  • Business
  • Wind

• Guess girls are normally blonde, blue-eyed bombshells. It was nice to be a brunette one.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Nice
  • Blue
  • Blonde

• Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group.

  

  Norbert Reithofer
  • Vehicles
  • Manufacturer
  • CO2-emitting

• I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad would the world be if people didn't create art and write? But, it's not an easy journey being a writer.

  

  Alyson Richman
  • Journey
  • Writer
  • Published

• I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Childhood
  • Writer
  • Influenced