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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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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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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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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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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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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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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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
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The peace agreement must be seen as a matter of urgency.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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There is nothing that can, in the dark become true.
