Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I always have to be writing.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.
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Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.
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The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
