Marcel Proust Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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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 never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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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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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
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Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
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Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.
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I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.
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Under each station of the real, another glimmers.
