Cesare Pavese Quotes
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
