Ruggiero Ricci Quotes
I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
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I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.
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But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
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Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
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I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.
