Dante Alighieri Quotes
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
