"I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher."
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"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."
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"Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."
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"People think I am a womanizer."
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"One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself."
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"Normal people think I'm insane."
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"Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating."
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"I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think it should take foot-pounds of energy to produce that art, otherwise we would have more mediocre writers, and we don't have room for any more mediocrity in the world. There's already enough of it being visited on us night and day through the Internet, and through television, and through politics."
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"Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve."
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"When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you...I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'"
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"People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck."
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"I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be."
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"If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes."
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"There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is."
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"It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later."
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"Think black love, think universal love. Just think love."
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"Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men."
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"In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer."
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"Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us."
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"I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself."
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