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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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
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A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
