Marcel Proust Quotes
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba
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Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
Natalie Cole
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You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
Karl Rove
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I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.
Kris Holden-Ried
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The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
Lou Boudreau
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust