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  • By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

    Memories   Sake   Firsts  
  • Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.

    Couple   Awards   Stories  
    Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
  • I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.

  • I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'

    Twitter post from Oct 23, 2014
  • In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.

  • I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

    School   Tea   Rewards  
    Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Touching Darkness: Number 2 in series”, p.95, Hachette UK
  • I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

    School   Order   Law  
  • Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

    Fiction   Input   Taste  
    "Real books in imaginary houses" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
  • I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot our first feature in a maximum security prison where about 95% of the cast were incarcerated men. We're editing that and there's a doc going with it.

    Men   Editing   Trying  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.196, Macmillan
  • Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

    Eye   Years   Your Side  
    Anne Rice (1976). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”
  • I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

    Hunting   Light   People  
  • The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.

    Solitude   Feelings   Way  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan
  • There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

  • In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan
  • That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

    Home   Warrior   Said  
    Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
  • My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

    Real   Drama   Writing  
  • Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.

    Half   Letters   Want  
  • Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

    Reading   Men   Hands  
    "The Marriage Plot: A Novel". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.
  • The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

    Sight   Mind   Littles  
    Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.60, Marcel Proust
  • Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

    "Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance". Interview with Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2008.
  • Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

  • I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

    Giving   Magic   Firsts  
    Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions
  • The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

    Kids   Rays   Debt  
    "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.
  • Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.

    Party   Europe   Law  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

    Past   People   Special  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan
  • No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

    Liquid   Crumbs   Palate  
    Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.48, Vintage
  • When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

    Acting   Roles   Looks  
  • We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

  • On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.

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