Marie-Chantal Claire Quotes

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

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• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Think
  • Want
  • Place

• No one remembers who came in second.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Second
  • Came
  • Remembers

• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Career
  • Feel

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wisdom

• The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Food

• Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Football
  • Questions

• No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Alone
  • Best
  • Memories

• Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Purpose
  • Clever

• Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Up
  • Home
  • True

• I am not sure what is meant by those who say that the Party should return to something called 'One Nation Conservatism'. As far as I can tell by their views on European federalism, such people's creed would be better described as 'No Nation Conservatism'.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Party

• Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Trust
  • Intelligent

• You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • World

• People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Effort

• Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Lost
  • Singing

• Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Good
  • High
  • Energy

• It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Russia
  • Pockets
  • Polite

• My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

  

  Alan King
  • College
  • Brother

• I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • Life
  • Rest

• I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire