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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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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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It's like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
