Italo Calvino Quotes
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.
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If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
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You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.
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It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
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We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging.
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
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You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.
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I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
