Cesare Pavese Quotes
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
Quotes to Explore
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I want to love life.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I love having critics for breakfast.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
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I use Revlon waterproof mascara. And then I love a smokey eye when I perform because I think it's important to make your eyes pop when you're on stage.
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Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
