Ugo Betti Quotes
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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Failure is a part of success.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.
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I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
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The heart ran o'erWith silent worship of the great of old! The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still ruleOur spirits from their urns.
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I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
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I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
