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The cinema is death at work.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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