Dacia Maraini Quotes
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
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The money is nice, but I am not in this game for the money.
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Travelling doesn't stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.
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I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.
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Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
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My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'
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I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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Children defer to adults because they’re older, bigger and stronger. But it’s also because children believe that adults have reasons for what they do. There was nothing magical about the Pied Piper of Hamelin’s flute. The Piper acted like he knew where he was going and the children followed him into the dark mountains where they were never seen again.
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I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.
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He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.
