Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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What's important is that, when you're tested, you stand firm against the violent activities of those who would try to plunge our people back into the misery of the past.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.
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'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.
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Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
