Primo Levi Quotes
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.
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A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
