Eugenio Montale Quotes
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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We always did everything ourselves.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
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I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
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I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.
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I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.
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If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.
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I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
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I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
