Cesare Pavese Quotes
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
