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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I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.
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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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I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
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It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
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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.
