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'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 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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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.
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Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid - I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity - a poetic comedy that's really funny.
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
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I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
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I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
