Umberto Eco Quotes
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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The world is always in movement.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.
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I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
