Marcel Proust Quotes
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Quotes to Explore
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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SÃ, trataré de ser. Porque creo que es orgullo no ser.
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I'm not in charge of my life.
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I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.
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I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
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It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
