Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted;You know it's lanterns in the skyFor angels who are losted.
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Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue?What makes diamond glitter!What makes Hubli So Special Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"
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There is nothing that can, in the dark become true.
