Cesare Pavese Quotes
I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.
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Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.
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When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'
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Jezzebel, don’t know you well, but I’d like to. Let me let you know that I’m on, and I want you.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
