Alexander Bard Quotes
We are born as psychotics, we die as neurotics, we merely try to stay alive in between - as perverts. Welcome to the world of Lacanian phenomenology.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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My chief request is that anyone who is a servant of God be ready and willing, to carry this letter forward; may it never be hidden or stolen by anyone, but rather, may it be read aloud before the whole people - Yes, even when Coroticus himself is present.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.
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Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.
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We are born as psychotics, we die as neurotics, we merely try to stay alive in between - as perverts. Welcome to the world of Lacanian phenomenology.
