Carlo Collodi Quotes
Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.
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Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.
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I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...
