Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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I sacrificed to the mania of the age, which is to overload things. My modeling is there, the eloquence of the gesture also. The rest would only spoil the essential things. It is a stroke of genius. I am going to write to the under-secretary of state that my monument is ready.
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I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
