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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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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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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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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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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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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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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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
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Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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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.
