Marcel Proust Quotes
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
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I guess I did a couple of things when I was a kid, but they weren't really acting - I think I walked down a corridor or something. Then I didn't want to do it at all. I got into it because both my parents were actors and so I went with the flow. Then I said, "I can't handle this, I don't like auditioning." I still hate auditioning, but it's less painful then it was back then.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a temporary, passing thing.
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Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
