Marcel Proust Quotes
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.
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And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
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I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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I didn't know it was going to be this severe.
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Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
