Jacques Lacan Quotes
The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Quotes to Explore
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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Man is an imagining being.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
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The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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I strongly believe in God. I go to church every Sunday, and if I happen to miss it, then I make up for the loss by going for it during the week. Whenever I spend time in the church, my mind is at peace.
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We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
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The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
