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 tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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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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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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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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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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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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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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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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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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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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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
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For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.
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Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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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.
