Andre Breton Quotes

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

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• A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Day

• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• The good thing is that I'm always honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Always
  • Honest

• I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Director

• I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Know
  • Against
  • Olympics

• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Easy

• You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Look

• People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Me
  • Woman

• Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • May
  • Day
  • Sports

• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Response
  • Against

• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Kill

• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Patience
  • Persistence

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• There is no free market for oil.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Free
  • Oil
  • Free-market

• I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • Perfect

• Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Success
  • Science
  • Culture

• It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

  

  James McBride
  • Fall

• Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

  

  Andre Breton