Marcel Proust Quotes
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.
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No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.
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My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.
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One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.