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Alfred de Vigny Quotes

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Alfred de Vigny

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: March 27, 1797 - September 17, 1863

Topics

Life Art Imitation Arts Only Use

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

Joanne Froggatt

Story Know Always See Pieces Period

Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.

Energy America Security Global Part

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Stephenie Meyer

Myself Me Free You Acting Person

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

Martin Scorsese

Good Friends Doing Go Know Duty

I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.

Michael T. Flynn

Together Believe Structure Willing

Absence - that common cure of love.

Love Absence Common Cure

Apple has the radio stations, so I go R&B in the morning, and then I'll go with some hip-hop before the game. But after the game, it's more meditation music. It's not artists; it's more whatever is being played.

Music Morning Game Apple Go Hip-Hop

Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.

Time World Surprise Doing First Time

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Culture Experience Reading Better

I don't own an iPod!

I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.

Dionne Bromfield

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

Best Yourself Religion People Treat

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