Octavio Paz Quotes
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
Irvin Mayfield
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
Eddie Redmayne
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
Gary Sinise
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes
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I don't believe in miracles.
Sam Simon
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
Dambisa Moyo
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Ian Mckellen
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
Aaron Neville
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante Alighieri
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I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.
Nonito Donaire
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
Sally Phillips
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
Octavio Paz