Patrick Modiano Quotes

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

Patrick Modiano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 30, 1945

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BeginningWritingYouYoungBeyond

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

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I like to always be as productive as possible.

Jeffree Star

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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

Jeffrey Donovan

New YorkCityThinkNewSometimes

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

Michael Franti

EducationChangeVisionPeopleEye

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Stanley Crouch

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In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

BecomeChinaCriminalElements

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

Jayson Blair

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Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.

Chris Young

PowerSocial MediaToolsPowerful

With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

Christine McVie

AmazingChemistryStageFleetwood Mac

'Paper Girls' in 1900 would be really cool. The girls could ride those old bicycles with the giant front wheel!

Cliff Chiang

RideCoolWheelOldPaperWould

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

Arne Duncan

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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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