Octavio Paz Quotes

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

InnovationTimeUniqueNewBegin

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

Andrew Shaffer

CharacterReadingMysteryYouKind

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

Melanie Griffith

PeopleMeLookHorribleMost

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

Robert Knepper

GoodMeBetterComedyYouWrite

Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.

Jeff Ross

PeopleBelieveThinkYouNiceSay

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

Jeff Beck

FunnyGuitarMagicYouGenuineTry

We are alarmed that a known or suspected terrorist can go to a federally licensed firearms dealer where background checks are conducted, pass that background check, legally purchase a firearm, and walk out the door.

Stanley A. McChrystal

WalkDoorGoOutCheckWhere

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Sidney Sheldon

SuccessMeThinkCareFeelSecret

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

Robert Fitzgerald

HeartMeYou Can Do ItLanguageYou

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

Diane Duane

MyselfPeopleMeThinkMysteryWill

The video game business is primarily a male-oriented business. And I have three girls. And you see the things that are important to them in their game experiences are the social interaction. They love the ability to chat with their friends. They love the ability to have some connection online with other people.

Bobby Kotick

LoveBusinessPeopleGameFriends

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

Alicia Vikander

LanguageLearnYouBeingDryLast

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Pratyusha Banerjee

PowerCorruptionDownPartyMatter

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