Marcel Proust Quotes
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
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I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
