Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
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It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
