Ugo Betti Quotes
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
Edmund White
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
Samira Wiley
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Halle Berry
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
Yael Grobglas
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
Rachel Kushner
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Zooey Deschanel
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
Carlos Ghosn
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I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
Tavi Gevinson
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
Malorie Blackman
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
Kate Hudson
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If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
Alison Krauss
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes
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Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile.'You mean,' he said, 'a crocodile.'
Ogden Nash
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There's never too much you can do.
Alek Wek
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
Walt Mossberg
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Ugo Betti