Alberto Moravia Quotes
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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We had something to prove after getting beat like we did last night because that wasn't our team.
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This movie 'On the Road' with Kristen Stewart - they were trying to make that movie for 30 years. She says she wants to do it, and they can finally make it. You have so much at your disposal if you're in a successful commercial film.
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I realized that I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. It's a trip more wonderful than I could have imagined.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
