Alessandro Baricco Quotes
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
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I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
