Marcel Proust Quotes
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.
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For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
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It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
