Alberto Moravia Quotes
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov
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They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.
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I didn't have a record player.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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My mother is a beauty.
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The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
