Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.
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It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
