Claudio Magris Quotes
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.
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If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.
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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
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I have a massive guilt thing about money.
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I hate my arms. If I wear a nice dress, I can't go strapless or sleeveless because my arms just aren't feminine.
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People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.
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I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.
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I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
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Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.
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The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
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We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
