Marcel Proust Quotes
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
Kate Thompson -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.
Cameron Boyce -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
Ralph Stanley
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
Faith Prince -
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi -
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner -
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
Zhu Rongji -
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu -
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
Ralph Thomas Walker
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
Dan Aykroyd -
One day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie Chan -
I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
Idina Menzel -
You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
Calvin Klein -
No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
Barack Obama -
And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
Edmund Spenser
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I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
Madeleine Stowe -
Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns
D. A. Carson -
No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Albert Einstein -
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
Marcel Proust