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 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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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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I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
