Jean Cocteau Quotes

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Jean Cocteau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Melanie Griffith

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I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

Amy Klobuchar

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In the gym, people's enthusiasm tends to get the best of them. They realize this is their opportunity to say hello or that they love my work... It doesn't matter how profusely you're sweating.

Sterling K. Brown

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If there was a mobility service that's cheaper than owning a car, more reliable, and you get to sit in the back seat instead of being stressed out in the front seat, why would you own a car?

Travis Kalanick

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I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

Michael Smith

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I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

Michael Korda

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What I'm concerned about are two things. I think one that John Miller talked about, and that's the radicalization over the Internet that ISIS is very adept at doing. The other one is a foreign fighter threat.

Michael McCaul

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One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Joyce Meyer

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But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

Joseph Rotblat

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I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Chevy Chase

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My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.

Chloe Benjamin

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