Marcel Proust Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
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It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
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You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.
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When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
