Marcel Proust Quotes
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
Quotes to Explore
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
