Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
