Marcel Proust Quotes
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

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No one today knows what is indecent.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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You want to know what scares people? Success.
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The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
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People know that I'm going to do what's right.
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Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?
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I once woke up at a random guy's house and i didn't actually know who he was.
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I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
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The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.
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I left home when I was 17, because I couldn't get along with my second stepfather, from Denmark. At that age young people can be very brave.
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A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.