Umberto Eco Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
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The biggest change of my life was coming to America.
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May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
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Our life is full of empty space.
