Umberto Eco Quotes
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
Umberto Eco
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
Mae Whitman
I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
Pablo Sandoval
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
Safra A. Catz
Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
Maggie Hassan
The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
Tammin Sursok
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
J. R. Martinez
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Tammy Duckworth
I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
Sam Shepard
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Kangana Ranaut
Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
Karen Morley
Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.
Kathleen McDonald
Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
Ram Kapoor
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.
Janis Ian
I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.
Lennie James
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder. I'm getting a lot better. The first interview I ever did was in 1972, I believe, and I couldn't speak. I couldn't speak one word. I only said, 'I painted it black.' That was my one sentence. And so I have improved.
David Lynch
The Platters
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
Umberto Eco
