Marcel Proust Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'
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On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
