Edmondo De Amicis Quotes
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.
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I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
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A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
