Marcel Proust Quotes
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.
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I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
