Marcel Proust Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.
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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
