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.
Sam Worthington -
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.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann -
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Yoko Ono -
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
Adam McKay
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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.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac -
A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
Mal Peet -
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.
Verite -
People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
Verne Troyer -
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
Gabriel Byrne
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
Gary Hamel -
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
Felix Frankfurter -
It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.
Axel Munthe -
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
Athenaeus -
You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.
Martin Lawrence
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Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell you what sucks. For early feedback, that's more important than professional editorial skill. Most people know what sucks.
Douglas Brunt -
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
Ian Somerhalder -
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
Barry Commoner -
I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
Natalie Dormer -
The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.
Jennifer Coolidge -
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust