"When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes."
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"The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up."
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"Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them."
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"Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid."
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"As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga."
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"I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice."
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"The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more."
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"The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'"
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"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment."
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"I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that."
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"Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be."
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"I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent"
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"If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist."
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"Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be."
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"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
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"It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss."
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"If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another."
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"I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was"
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"After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity."
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"Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick."
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