A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
