Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Accept loss forever.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I don't feel closeted.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
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KING: There's a lot of killing in the name of Christ in history.
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I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
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I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can't think of.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
