Eugenio Montale Quotes
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon’s influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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I created FEED as a way to provide people with a tangible way to make an impact in the fight against hunger, with each purchase of a FEED product donating meals directly to children in need.
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We have been disappointing on our travels, so we need to give our supporters something to shout about. You just need to put two or three results together and you could be climbing the table.
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.