Claudio Magris Quotes
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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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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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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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I have a massive guilt thing about money.
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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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'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.
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I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.
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The media is really failing the American people.
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At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.
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My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.
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Even though I love fashion and would love to be a fashion designer, I don't live and breathe fashion every day of my entire life.
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To me, fashion is like a mirror... It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message.
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
