Marcel Proust Quotes
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
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The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
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The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.
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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
