Fredric Jameson Quotes
If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
Aaron Lazar
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
Taye Diggs
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
Edgar Ramirez
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
Patrice Leconte
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
Samantha Power
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
Nargis Fakhri
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Walid Jumblatt
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.
John Cleese
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
Caleb Cushing
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
Adam Mansbach
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If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life.
Fredric Jameson