Erri De Luca Quotes
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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I never try to be too sexy. People know when you're not comfortable and trying to be sexy.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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People ask me, "What is it like?" with a negative tone. But for me, I'm surrounded by the most talented and passionate people in the industry.
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I like people who can't die in their bed.
