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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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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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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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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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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If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
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I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.
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Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
