Marcel Proust Quotes
Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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Love is a flower of life – sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom – you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.
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We knew before the tournament that this would be like a final for us, that it would be a tough group and that it wouldn't be a cakewalk. But everything is in our hands and that's why I am very confident...
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Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.
