Marcel Proust Quotes
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
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Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
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I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
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As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
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I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
