Cesare Pavese Quotes
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
