Marcel Proust Quotes
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading 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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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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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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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
