Quotes 41 till 60 of 121.
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
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Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
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Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
Cuts: Texts 1959-2004 -
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010) 38 -
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?
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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
Arctic Dreams -
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
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