Roberto Bolano Quotes
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
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When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
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Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.
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There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.
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If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.
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I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
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The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
