Anais Nin Quotes
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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Free love sounds great.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
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The Paris Agreement's going to continue without the United States of America.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
