Marcel Proust Quotes
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
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I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.
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Under each station of the real, another glimmers.
