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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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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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 -
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 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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I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
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If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.
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The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellosbecause they do not study the whole person.
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Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
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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.
