Dacia Maraini Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall had gone down, so many people were writing about Berlin, I didn't have the same urgency or feel enough authority.
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You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
