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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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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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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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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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.
