Rene Char Quotes
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
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Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.
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I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
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So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
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People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
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I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
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You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
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I can't dwell.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
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I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
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To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
