Cesare Pavese Quotes
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.Cesare Pavese
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
Barbara Corcoran -
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport -
There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian -
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant -
People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
Sade Adu -
See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris -
I find celebrity really scary.
Kate Ashfield -
If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
Sam Graves
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth -
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
Edith Widder -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
Lacey Schwimmer -
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
Ira Sachs -
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler -
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
Irving Kirsch -
Shake accepted a yellowed slip of paper and unfolded it. It was a page torn from a copy of Julius Caesar. Minh had underlined a passage and written a rough Vietnamese translation in the margin. “`Cry `Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.' Yes. It’s what I was thinking. It’s what happened on the Long Mountain March, isn’t it?” “Yes...” “It wasn’t the first time. It won’t be the last. Do you remember My Lai, Minh?” “I remember what we heard. Quang Ngai Province. Civilians were executed by American soldiers.
Dale Dye -
I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
Victor Vasarely -
If you're going to do something in your life do it 100%. Don't question it just go after it. If you don't believe in it or you're not honest with yourself it's not going to work and that's just something that I learned over the years.
Kevin Martin -
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese