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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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
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I think when a lot of people hear the term 'country,' they step off from it.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
