Umberto Eco Quotes
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
