Sergio Leone Quotes
America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
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In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.
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I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
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I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.
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Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?
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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
