Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
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I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
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People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
