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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
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Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
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Life is a competitive endeavor.
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'Look, Nelson. Maybe I haven't done everything right in my life. I know I haven't. But I haven't committed the greatest sin. I haven't laid down and died.'
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A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.
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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.
