Umberto Eco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
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People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
