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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Topics

Speak Vanity Say Little Us Make

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Software Top System Operating System

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Robert Robinson

Teacher Place University Laboratory

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

Feel Glory I Feel Like Like I Feel

I'm really interested in the form, putting one piece up against another and finding something corroborative in another voice. I've done a lot of that.

Voice Finding Done Up Something

I'd love to do a love story. I've never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don't think I've had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that's something I want to explore in my own life first.

Life Love True Love Story Think

Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

Money People Ego Think You Know

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.

Good Thrive Collective Invest

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Time Choices Selfish Hurt Someone

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Half Half Full Misery Cup Been Full

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

Future Moment Writing Ice Ice Cream

The only thing that being killed off on 'Graceland' helped me with on 'Game of Thrones' is that it made me available to actually do the job.

Job Me Game Being Available Off

A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Work Good Character Art Fool Voice

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