Marcel Proust Quotes
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
Quotes to Explore
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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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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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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My private life stays private.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.
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The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.
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I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.
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My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
