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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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 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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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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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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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.
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When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.
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Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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It is crucial to bridge the critical gap between manpower availability and employability by providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for all to grow and prosper.
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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.
