Patrick Modiano Quotes
Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?
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The world is always in movement.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
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People spend money when and where they feel good.
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Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.
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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
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Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?
