Fernando Pessoa Quotes

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Fernando Pessoa

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• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
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  • Character

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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  • Place
  • Playing

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Spirit
  • Acting

• Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Journey

• I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.

  

  Frankie Ballard

• The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Mind
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Believe
  • Pleasure
  • Belief

• The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

  

  George A. Romero
  • Bad
  • Advice

• To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Character
  • Soul