Dante Alighieri Quotes
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot of talk about us doing 'Sucker Punch' in 3-D, but I'm still waiting to see.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
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Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
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If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
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The Gutenberg galaxy was theoretically dissolved in 1905 with the discovery of curved space, but in practice it had been invaded by the telegraph two generations before that. (p. 286)
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
