Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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'One thing there's no getting by- I've been a wicked girl.' said I; 'But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!'
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
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In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.
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I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.
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I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.
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I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.
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In the words of Marcel Proust - and this applies to any woman in the world - if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning... you're in.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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There is something indecent in words
