Octavio Paz Quotes
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I never really learned photography.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.
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I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.
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I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.
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The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
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They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
