Marcel Proust Quotes

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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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.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Years
  • Become

• 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.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Nobody
  • Anymore
  • Crowded

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Regret

• 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.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Stereotypes

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Power
  • Aphrodisiac

• 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.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • River

• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
  • Moment
  • White

• The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Improvise

• That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Home
  • Career

• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

  

  Alveda King
  • Thinking
  • Racism
  • Error

• It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Moment
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