Alejandro Ghersi (Arca) Quotes
I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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I do a lot of ceramics.
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
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The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall.
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Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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The only shame is to have none.
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Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.
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And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.
