Alessandra Mastronardi Quotes
Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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Publishing is not my world.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
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I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
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I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
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The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
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One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.
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from a skit about airports You know you're in trouble when at the control tower, there's a note taped to the door that says 'Back in five minutes.'
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Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.
