Marcel Proust Quotes
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Quotes to Explore
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I am a just man.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
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When I do my hair down, it just does not look good. It's just stringy, and it's like a hot mess.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
