Octavio Paz Quotes
And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
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On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'
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And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?
