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Jean Cocteau

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JEAN COCTEAU Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw...
EDOARDO PONTI Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera...
OZWALD BOATENG We are chained, but you just don't realise it...
DEYTH BANGER You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlik...
PRINCE I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
ALEX TURNER People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and ju...
LAURA MARLING Let's don't do it again and again, posting the same, saying the same and the same. It's pointless!
DEYTH BANGER Don’t stop breathing just because night has fallen! Don't stop breathing just because you are slee...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you think you are ready you are not ready.
When you are not ready you are ready...
DEYTH BANGER They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up li...
LARRY HOLMES Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then se...
WILL ROGERS Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do b...
TOM T. HALL Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don't like a striped tie ...
ALEC BALDWIN Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
ROBERT CARO Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
BERNIE TAUPIN Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't sa...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I observed that most global achievers were first time global failures. It means, when you fail at yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can'...
BUDDY DEFRANCO Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever s...
BLAC CHYNA You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are th...
IRVINE WELSH I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently beca...
YARA SHAHIDI People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the ...
ED BEGLEY, JR. When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan,...
GERMANY KENT It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don...
GARY NEVILLE Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they do...
BRUCE SUTTER Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ...
BILL NYE Winners don;t do different things, they do things differently.
SHIV KHERA Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass thro...
RAF SIMONS I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclai...
RENE RICARD I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick...
ACE FREHLEY People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threate...
BILL LASWELL As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They los...
JAN KOUM Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if y...
SARA BLAKELY ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac...
DEYTH BANGER I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie st...
FRANCES MCDORMAND A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albu...
VANESSA CARLTON Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
KARL LAGERFELD I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent fem...
EVAN GOLDBERG So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They ...
PAT OLIPHANT You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro...
ALAN ALDA If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav...
JACKIE GLEASON I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then...
JOHNNY BENCH Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately...
DENIS LEARY I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that...
DYLAN MORAN I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
EDDIE CAMPBELL If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don...
KARRIE WEBB I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women po...
MARILYN HACKER I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then th...
T. BOONE PICKENS I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. M...
CALLIE KHOURI I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu...
SHANNON LUCID The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: peop...
ANDREW LANSLEY I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio...
JOHN LE CARRE If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&...
TENA DESAE Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors,...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start s...
ANDREW GOULD There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't qui...
RICHARD LINKLATER Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've...
BETH BROOKE A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to;...
WALTER KIRN Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to se...
TED TURNER People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. ...
ANDIE MACDOWELL Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which t...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But ...
PATRICK RAFTER My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it...
ROBERT ATKINS I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they'...
ALEXA CHUNG Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a...
JOHN LE CARRE I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui...
GABRIEL BASSO Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's cru...
RUSH LIMBAUGH People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by ...
CAROLYN CHUTE Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure t...
SARA BLAKELY I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are intere...
KATHERINE JENKINS Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you'...
DIANNA AGRON You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything....
JASON ALDEAN The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. ...
DAVID CROSBY The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after t...
MOHIT CHAUHAN I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under thei...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
AVI ARAD A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surreali...
HAROLD PINTER That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, mayb...
JAMES C. DOBSON Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixe...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I think, for the benefit of our parents, the perfect night out would be when Cate and I touch the wa...
BRONTE CAMPBELL It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe t...
MAGGIE SMITH I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I...
MIKE GORDON But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public o...
ED SHEERAN When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull...
CARLENE CARTER It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready f...
ALICE MCDERMOTT Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women d...
ZAHA HADID Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally...
RYAN HOLMES I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
JACKIE COLLINS If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ...
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JEAN COCTEAU When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
JEAN COCTEAU An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAU The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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JEAN COCTEAU Sentir antes de comprender.
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JEAN GENET No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET