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Jacques Prevert Quotes

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Jacques Prevert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: February 4, 1900 - April 11, 1977

Topics

Life Dress Cool Sweet Night Present

I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

Early Intense Afternoon Show Get

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

World Kind My Own Always Own Lived

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

Artist Matter Consciousness Shape

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

Alone Free Peaceful Want Left Am

Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.

People Opinion Care Opinions Scared

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Dinah Maria Mulock

Small Poverty House Comfort Own How

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is.

Me Song Believe Feel Play Sometimes

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Donald Rumsfeld

You Page Say Washington See Things

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

Friendship Friends Sometimes Lasts

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

History Respect Identity World Own

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

Children Best Woman Want Understand

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

Work Feel Look Back Satisfied Very

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