Gaston Bachelard Quotes
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Quotes to Explore
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
Gail Porter
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
Kassie DePaiva
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
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My schedule is so crazy.
J. J. Watt
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
Baz Luhrmann
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
Octavia E. Butler
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My life is not just about the past.
Jeannette Walls
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I believe cultural survival is extremely important. I also believe it's important to realize the contributions that we make for each other.
Joanne Shenandoah
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
William Hazlitt
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Never put off writing until you are better at it.
Gary Henderson
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston Bachelard