Marcel Proust Quotes
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I knew very early on I wanted to be a television writer. My teachers told me I was a strong writer and had a voice. I really leaned in to that.
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
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I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.
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Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.
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If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.
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A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thoughtwhat on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.
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Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
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Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
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At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
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Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
