Dante Alighieri Quotes
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother's sense to her.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
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Vidi e conobbi l'ombra di coluiche fece per viltade il gran rifiuto.
