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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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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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My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
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According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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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.
