Ernesto Sabato Quotes
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.
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I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
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Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
