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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
"The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states."
"Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity."
"The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall."
"People who are serving in villages should think- here is my opportunity to do something transformative during my tenure & serve my village."
"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
"If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand."
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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
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