Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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Where there is love there is life.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.
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Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.
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Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
