Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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There is no one true church.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.
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Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
