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What is really beautiful must always be true.

Stendhal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842

Topics

BeautifulBe TrueTrueAlwaysMust

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

John de Mol, Jr.

LifeBrotherBookReadingLearnYou

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

Matthew Reilly

MeWorldCreateNewFantasyBreak

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

Amir Khan

WorkCareerHighGotBecauseVery

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

Alton Brown

HomeTeacherGoofyLikeReally

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

JobWordsRealityMeaningYouUp

Me making music happened not even from a desire to make records.

Roisin Murphy

MusicMeDesireRecordsHappened

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

Michelle Forbes

WorkPlanYouLookSometimesWant

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

Molly Antopol

ExperienceStoryGoingWorkingSense

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

Lucy Punch

LoveCharacterUglySisterYouMore

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

VisionWordsGlassObscureLikeAid

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.

Denise Dresser

FailureGoodWarPeopleViewOut

I think the cool thing about snowboarding is that everyone has their own style.

Chloe Kim

StyleCoolThinkSnowboardingOwn

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