Marcel Proust Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
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The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.
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It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
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We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
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If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
