Marcel Proust Quotes
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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I've got a one-dimensional mind.
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I loved it. We would rehearse in this dark theatre, unaware of the sunny day outside, and be immersed in the magic of creating something from our imaginations.
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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But since he has decided to have the impossibility of living, every misfortune is an opportunity which lays this importance of living before his eyes and obliges him to decide, once again, to die.
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Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
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No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
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We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
