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Jean Cocteau Quotes

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Roses True Scent Poet Bother

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

Work Family Love Space People Media

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

Family Father Childhood Me Principal

When everything is stripped away in life, everybody is a human being that has problems, that has issues, has flaws, that isn't perfect. It doesn't make a difference what your sex is, what your sexual preference is, what your race is or what your background is. If you're a good person, you're OK in my book.

Life Good Book Make A Difference You

Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Bond Rules Chemistry Govern Species

You don't want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don't want to show stuff nobody is going to wear.

Michael Bastian

You Nobody Want Boring Presentation

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

Smart People Think Problem Kind

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

You Will Studying Watch Surprised

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Music Myself Grow Trying Create New

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

Love Doing Most Theater Thing

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

People Say Want Movies More Big

When you play against people that's better than you, you get better.

People Better You Play Against Get

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

Live Myself Culture Hate People

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