Marcel Proust Quotes

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel Proust

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

Topics

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Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

Andy Garcia

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Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

Max McKeown

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It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Max Minghella

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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Maya Angelou

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We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy.

Robert Solow

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Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

Steve Ells

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The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

Simon Conway Morris

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I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever.

Torrey Smith

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From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Robert Casey

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People would probably say my mom raised very confident children, but it comes from a place of being comfortable in your own skin.

Miles Teller

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In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.

Liz Goldwyn

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Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

Diane Kruger

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