Christian Metz Quotes
The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
Diana Ross
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
A.S.A. Harrison
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Andrew Vachss
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
Lorne Michaels
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
Andy Rooney
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Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
Brian Tracy
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If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
Adam Sandler
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I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
Carol Moseley Braun
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
Chris Matthews
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I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.
Kate Zambreno
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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
Cat Power
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
Sarah Vowell
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I could go out there and throw my body about, but for now I'm just taking my time. There's always going to be talk and you are only as good as your last game. I have to prove myself all over again.
Alecko Eskandarian
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The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
