Marcel Proust Quotes
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey -
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
Dacre Montgomery -
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
Val Kilmer -
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg -
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett -
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan Quayle
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
Karl von Frisch -
If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
H. Jon Benjamin -
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch Spinoza -
I love to be in front of big galleries.
Natalie Gulbis
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill -
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan -
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge -
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
Lana Del Rey -
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
Rand Paul -
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis -
There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
James Daly -
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler -
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Kevin Powers -
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
Marcel Proust