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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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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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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
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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.
