Marcel Proust Quotes
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
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Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive
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I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
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The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.
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Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.
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When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.
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Who knows why women aren't - obviously, rock 'n' roll, I keep saying this, but aggressive and in a way that is sexually aggressive, like the singer is the aggressor. And people don't want to see girls in that position. They would rather go after them.
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I learned a lot of things that I didn't know about playing quarterback. Going to Metro, I learned how to move in the pocket and how to position the ball on pass plays.
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If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.
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You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.
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If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.
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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
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Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
