Ignazio Silone Quotes
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
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No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
