Ingmar Bergman Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
