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Jean Cocteau Quotes

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: french
Birth: July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

Topics

Style Simple Saying Complicated Way

I have over seventy tattoos.

Seventy Over Tattoos

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Education Mother School Me Mom Year

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Michel De Certeau

Freedom Individual System Left Only

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Great People You Movies Compliment

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

Live Mistakes Performance Perfect

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Football Team Small You Drama Know

I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.

Day Training Spring Listening Chance

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Life Culture Man Parents Youth You

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

Yourself Trying You Ready Play Try

There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let's say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we've got to solve that press.

Good Win Winning You Bad Say

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

Work Doing You Years Stay Something

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Shelley Moore Capito

Perspective Me You Born Skin Lucky

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