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Jean Cocteau Quotes

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Art Artist Copy Be Original Original

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

Politics People Internet Election

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

Andrea Riseborough

Home You Body Go Kind Circumstances

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Music People More Symphony Only

When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

Matthew James Thomas

Work You Person Way Mess Beat

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

World Heaven Lying Pretty Us Begins

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

Change Good Money Yourself Effort

I'm very grateful that I was given the ability to create.

Grateful Create Ability Given Very

The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.

Good War American Electricity Wasted

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Life Good Care Survival Good Life

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

Life Think My Life Doing My Own Own

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Donald G. Mitchell

Life Dreams Time Feel Dreamer You

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Family Someone You Say Will Way

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