Pablo Tusset Quotes
To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.Pablo Tusset
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
Gabourey Sidibe -
People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden -
Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
Hans Jonas -
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
Barbara Kruger -
At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
Paloma Elsesser
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Reality is what you can count on.
Dallas Willard -
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick -
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
Octavio Paz -
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen -
Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
Victor LaValle -
Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
Palmer Luckey
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
Barry Diller -
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Frances Burney -
I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
Flume -
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard -
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
Mandy Patinkin -
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell
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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
John Roberts -
I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.
Erica Jong -
I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.
Leah Pipes -
To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.
Pablo Tusset