Marcel Proust Quotes
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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I love my work. It's been good to me.
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Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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I take my religion seriously.
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Where’s the nerdy shy Predator scientist who figured out how to build a spaceship while all the big jock Predators were down the pub ripping one another’s spines out, eh?
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
