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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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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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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Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.
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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
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My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.
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It's easy to lose a civilization. The values of Western civilization have brought so much good to the world: the notions of equality, democracy, tolerance, abolition of slavery... Tolkien knew that civilization is worth fighting for. There are times when a generation is challenged and must fight to defend their civilization from annihilation.
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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.
