Marcel Proust Quotes

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion.

Marcel Proust

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• Fail
• Desertion

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Have
  • Dresses
  • Many

• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • College
  • Thought

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Now

• I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Thought

• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Think
  • Confidence

• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Right

• ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

  

  Tan Le
  • Science
  • Creativity

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• I did charity events with the Cup all the time.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Charity
  • Cup

• I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

  

  Tana French
  • Religious
  • Need
  • Belief

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Belief

• I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

  

  Raekwon
  • Different
  • Artist
  • Totally

• I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Thank You

• All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Man
  • Spark
  • Forbid

• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Artist
  • Fail
  • Desertion