Cesare Pavese Quotes
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Quotes to Explore
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
