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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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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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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
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I used to dress up in my older sister Alisia's clothes and thought modelling would be fun.
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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.
