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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I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
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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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Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.
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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 hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.
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... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
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Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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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.
