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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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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Oakland's got a lot of character.
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When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
