Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.
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I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
