Gaston Bachelard Quotes
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
