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I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

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Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

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I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Ask Become Before Camera Director Disney Films Grew Language Make Me Novels Offered People Said Started Stories Telling Theatre Then Up Walt Walt Disney Wanted Would Writer

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 28th, 1960

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