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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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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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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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.
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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
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I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...
