Marcel Proust Quotes

Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

Marcel Proust

• Attention
• Actors
• Moon
• Perform

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• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Man
  • Genius

• I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Father
  • Growing

• I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • College
  • Doing
  • Improv

• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Career
  • Being Pregnant

• With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Together

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Garden

• It was a mighty while ago.

  

  Ben Jonson

• Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Future

• What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • May
  • Education
  • Curiosity

• That little, small voice in your mind and in your heart that makes you curious about being vegan is something you should listen to, because that’s the sound of your conscience making you be compassionate.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Small

• I've kind of walked into a realm where it's paid off for all the hard work that I've put into it, and I get to bless my family. And that's the one thing I love doing. I love giving.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Work
  • Family
  • Giving

• I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Fashion
  • Opinion

• The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Attention
  • Lyric

• Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Work
  • Actors

• I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Bad

• I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Black

• Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Attention
  • Actors
  • Moon