Rene Char Quotes
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
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At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
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I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
