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Octavio Paz Quotes

The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me World Little Big Before Vast

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Faith Community Bad Marriages Course

People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.

Humor People You Sometimes Nothing

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

Family Failure Happiness Music Story

I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

Learning Experience Me Enjoy Film

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Change Pain People Accept Always

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Daily Discipline Me Journal Write

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

Steven Van Zandt

Politics Thank You Better You Now

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Live Music People Expectations Want

You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage.

Children Happy Child You Powerful

I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

Character Man Yourself Think You

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Women Way See Honest Things Cannot

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

Person Same Guy Off Ear Bit

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