Bianca Balti Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.
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What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.
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The one thing I don't understand is war.
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Becoming a mother made me better understand how blessed I am to do this job.
