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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: 1645 - 1696

Topics

Love Alone Beginning End Find Two

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Influence Book Anxiety Dreamer Long

Yucca Mountain isn't pretty. And it also isn't large. From far away, the mountain's just a squat bulge in the middle of the desert, essentially just debris from a bigger, stronger mountain that erupted millions of years ago and hurled its broken pieces into piles across the earth.

Mountain Broken Desert Stronger

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Family Faith Professional Leap Our

When I was young and getting bullied at school and really not feeling like I would amount to much and staying isolated, my mom used to say to me a lot about how you treat people and always having dignity and respect.

Respect School People Me Mom Treat

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.

Time Best Experience Space Night

You know what burns me? Matches.

Me You Know Burns Matches

There seems to be a feeling we need Klaus to be in 'The Vampire Diaries,' surely and partially because of the Klaus and Caroline dynamic, but many people love the character. They want to see more of the character, but people really have a tendency to fear the unknown.

Love Fear Character People Feeling

I write all of my music.

Music Write I Write

I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.

Problem Prove Way Over Head Like

There were a couple times with close-ups where I tended to overact. I would use more of my face than I needed to. I learned how to be more subtle.

Christopher Lloyd

Face More Where Subtle Would Than

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

Bruce Beresford

Camera Down Movies Silent Off Front

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Black Born Crime Alabama Being Only

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