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.
Marcel Proust
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut
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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.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
Daniel Clowes
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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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.
E. L. Doctorow
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
Kate Winslet
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
Garth Brooks
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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.
Natalie Dormer
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
J. K. Simmons
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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.
Lamar Hunt
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Jack Kilby
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Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
John Crowley
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As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem
Stephen Covey
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Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
Don King
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Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
Sebastiao Salgado
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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.
Marcel Proust
