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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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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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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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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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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I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
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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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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
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Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.
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“Uh-oh," thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. "This person wants to kill me."
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While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.
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Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman.
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There is something indecent in words
