Cesare Pavese Quotes
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.
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It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
