Marcel Proust Quotes
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
Quotes to Explore
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I don't really care how I sound.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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I have been singing for as long as I could talk.
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It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.
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I'm emotionless right now. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling.
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I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
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There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
