Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
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I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
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The experiences of the years...have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
