Octavio Paz Quotes
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I have selective hearing.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
