Marcel Proust Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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Once, when I got some of the songs back from him, it was around Christmas time, and it was the best Christmas present I could have wished for -- really, really exciting.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
