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Marcel Proust Quotes

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Affection Dead Dying Because

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Place Image Forever Own Shapes Most

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

Girl Time People Long You Long Time

Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human.

Stellan Skarsgard

Child Think Behavior You Look Human

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

War Survive Friends Seventy Dead

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

Women Day Living Talk Pretty Much

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

Good Challenge Words Saying Feelings

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

New York Los Angeles New Years Moved

I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.

Short First Payroll

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

Dominic Chianese

Truth People Think Say Something

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Music Art School Painting Tool Kids

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

Good Hate People Me Think Bad

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

Knowledge Down Observation Duty May

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