Octavio Paz Quotes
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.Octavio Paz
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
Irvin Mayfield -
There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
Eddie Redmayne -
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer -
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
Gary Sinise -
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes -
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White -
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny -
Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Ian Mckellen
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes -
Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
Aaron Neville -
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
Zack Greinke -
I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
Edith Widder -
One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
Yitzhak Navon
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I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting to film in Snowden.
Scott Eastwood -
I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.
Labrinth LSD -
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
Douglas Carter Beane -
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.
Haruki Murakami -
How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
LL Cool J -
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
Octavio Paz