Octavio Paz Quotes
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.
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We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.
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I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
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I never change, except in my affections.
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
