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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I once woke up at a random guy's house and i didn't actually know who he was.
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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 fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.
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In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
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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.
