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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What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
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I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
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Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
