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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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 think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
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I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
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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.
