Italo Calvino Quotes
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
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When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
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I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
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I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
