Danilo Kis Quotes
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
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I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
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I won my second Grand Slam in one year. That is the best year in my career.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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I wanted to fulfill my dream of playing in the NFL.
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I... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud... Out here, everything was Jung.
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'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.
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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
