Christopher Lasch Quotes
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'
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I had a heart then But the queen has been overthrown
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Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
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If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
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Creativity's about ownership.
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My little Pierre is now nearly five years old. He is quite a big boy. I used to wait with impatience for the time when I could take him with me and talk with him, opening his young mind, instilling into him the love of beauty and truth, and helping fashion for him so lofty a soul that the ugliness of life could not degrade it
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He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
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Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.
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Whoever imitates a people is one of them.
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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
