Octavio Paz Quotes
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
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I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
