Umberto Eco Quotes
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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People love to be told what they know already.
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I love TV.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
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But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
