Cesare Pavese Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
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I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.
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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
