"I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere."

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Sacha Guitry

#Kissing Quotes #Hands Quotes #Favors Quotes

“There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.”
“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”
“The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.”

Source : "The Sacred in Music". Book by Albert L. Blackwell, 1999.
“For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.”
“Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.”
“"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”
“Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.”

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