Umberto Eco Quotes
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I had to learn right away how to improvise behind Ornette, which not only meant following him from one key to another and recognizing the different keys, but modulating in a way that the keys flowed in and out of each other, and the new harmonies sounded right.
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If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
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It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.
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All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
