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 love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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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 come with bad genetics, personally.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
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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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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
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And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.
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I amused myself playing with the journalists.
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There is something indecent in words
