Octavio Paz Quotes

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

Octavio Paz

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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
So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.

Omari Hardwick
- Me
- Everything
- Close
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Halle Berry
- Life
- Love
- Beautiful
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

Beau Willimon
- Time
- World
- Political
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Nathan Sawaya
- Up
- Time
- Art
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Naveen Jain
- World
- Sustainability